Installing Drivers and the Writer Software
As a general precaution the installation of the hardware
has to be carried out as described before. The software
installation starts with activating the reading
functionality of the drive as this is well known with any
conventional CD-ROM drive. If the reading functionality
is available the next installation step is to achieve the
writing functionality provided of the writer software.
More details according the installation of your writer
software you will find in its documentation.
Installing Drivers with Windows 98/ME/2000/XP
According to the Plug-and-Play conventions the optical
drive is recognized as a standard CD-ROM drive first.
To make this possible the drives hardware installation
must have been carried out correctly. After switching on
your computer, Windows 98/ME /2000/XP will install the
necessary driver automatically.
Caution:
Do not install any additional drivers with Windows
98/ME/2000/XP.
Installing Drivers with Windows NT 4.0 and OS/2
After installing the hardware, the reading functionality of
the optical drive is activated with installing the drivers
shipped with the corresponding operating system. The
drivers may be configured and activated aided by the
system control. Please refer to the manual of your
operating system for any details.
Compatibility or Interoperability to other IDE
Devices
If there are any problems if other drives are connected
to the same IDE port (especially IDE-Changer, Phase
Change Drive, ZIP-Drive, and others), the optical drive
has to be connected as master as a single drive.