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27, Specification English -- E-23 -- Appendix B. Frequently Asked Question (FAQ) The following FAQ’s are the most common problems you may find during installation or regular use. Please review these FAQ’s to have your problem solved. In case you do not find any items that answer your problem, please contact your dealer or technical support. Q: Computer won’t boot up after installation. Please proceed the following procedures …
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23, AOpen CRW5232 Specification English -- E-19 -- Pacific Rim A Open Inc. Tel: 886-2-2696-1333 Fax: 886-2-8691-2233 Web Site: www.aopen.com E-mail: Send us email by going through the contact form below. English http://www.aopen.com/tech/contact/techusa.htm Japanese http://www.aopen.co.jp/tech/contact/techjp.htm Chinese http://www.…
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22, Specification -- E-18 -- 5.3. How to Contact Us Dear Customer, Thanks for choosing AOpen products. To provide the best and fastest service to our customer is our first priority. However, we receive numerous emails and phone-calls worldwide everyday, it is very hard for us to serve everyone on time. We recommend you follow the procedures below and seek help before contact us. With your help, we can then continue to provide the best quality service to more customers. Thanks ver…
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2, Copyright © Copyright 2002 by AOpen Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, transmitted, transcribed, stored in a retrieval system, or translated into any language or computer language, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, magnetic, optical, chemical, manual or otherwise, without the prior written permission of AOpen Inc. All brand and product names are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their respect…
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4, Appendix A. Glossary ..................................................20 Appendix B. Frequently Asked Question (FAQ) ........23 Appendix C. Specification ...........................................25
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15, Specification English -- E-11 -- 5. Place the CD-R/RW in a 5.25-inch bay. 6. Use four provided screws (size: M3x0.5x4mm) to secure the drive into the half-height bay. The screws electronically ground the drive. This CD-R/RW drive must be horizontally installed and operated. 7. Locate your computer’s power supply and find an unused …
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11, Specification English -- E-7 -- Rear Panel y Power Connector Used to connect to the host computer’s power supply (DC 5V/12V). Be careful not to reverse the power connector when attaching it. A reversed connection may cause damage to the equipment (not covered by the warranty) y E-IDE Connector Use a 40-pin double-end flat E-IDE cable to connect to the E-IDE interface. Connecting or disconnecting connectors while power i…
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9, Specification English -- E-5 -- 3. Hardware Installation The installation of AOpen CD-R/RW drive is fast and easy. Please follow these instructions described below: 3.1. System Requirements A PC system with the following features is highly recommended for ensuring a stable CD-R/RW performance. y CPU: Pentium II 350 MHz or higher y Operating System: Windows 95/98/ME/2000/NT4.0 y Me…
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14, AOpen CRW5232 Specification -- E-10 -- We recommend that you install the CD-ROM on the Secondary IDE channel as the master device (MA), and the CD-R/RW on the Secondary IDE channel as the slave device (SL). Please follow the steps below to fulfill this arrangement. y First make sure that your Secondary IDE cable has two ports available for two y IDE devices. If not, ask your main board vendor or purchase one from computer hardware stores. y If the CD-ROM…
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18, Specification -- E-14 -- 4. Software Installation 4.1. Before You Start Please understand that CD recording is a non-interruptible process. Therefore, a stable recording environment is a must. If you have a HDD set up only for CD recording purpose, the recording process shall be smooth. However, if an extra HDD is not available, you might prefer carrying out the following steps to optimize your Windows 95 / 98 / NT / ME / 2000 / XP recording arrangement: y Close all resident programs th…
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8, Introduction -- E-4 -- CD-I* Y Y CD-ROM+CD-DA Y Y Video-CD Y Y CD-Text Y Y * CD-I, Photo-CD requires special reader/player; Photo-CD writing requires Kodak license 2.4. Type of Writing Disc-At-Once When only a single recording session (lead in/data/lead out) is to be recorded onto a disk, it is called “Disc-At-Once”. When using Disc-At-Once, no additional data can be recorded onto the disc, even if there is available capacity. The advant…
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12, Specification -- E-8 -- y Device Configuration Jumper Used when selecting the device configuration of E-IDE. Don’t use jumpers to change anything besides the device configuration. Configuration changes become valid after power is turned off, then on again. The device configuration jumper will be set to Master as factory default setting. 3.3. Speed Boost AOpen is always devoted to provide the best and the most stable products to our customers. The CD-R/RW drive reading speed is getting higher and higher, inevitably the higher…
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29, AOpen CRW5232 Specification English -- E-25 -- Appendix C. Specification Rotation Speed: (It’s different depends on the different purchased model Specifications) Read Write 52X, 40X, 32X, 24X, 16X, 12X, 8X, 4X CD-R:52X, 48X, 40X, 32X, 24X, 16X, 12X, 8X CD-RW:32X, 24X, 12X 10X, 4X Write/Read Norma Speed: 150KB/sec. 170KB/sec. Mode 1, Mode 2 Form 1 Mode 2 Form 2 Writing Mode: Track at Once Disc at Once Session at Once Multi-session Packet Write Recording Capaci…
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26, AOpen CRW5232 Specification -- E-22 -- Orange Book The Orange Book is a physical format of recordable CD announced in 1989 by Philips and Sony. The Orange Book describes CD-MO in part-I and CD-R in part-II. Later on part-II was updated. In 1994, version-II was announced for the CD-ROM and its double speed type. In 1996, the standards for phase change optical disc, rewritable CD (CD-RW) was added as part-III. Photo-CD A CD format and system devised by Eastman Kodak to record digitized photograph d…
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5, AOpen CRW5232 Use Precautions English -- E-1 -- 1. Use Precautions These precautions explain how to use the device correctly and safely, thereby preventing injury to yourself or to others. This section relates to your personal safety, and also helps you minimize the risk of damaging the device. Please read carefully before proceeding. 1.1. Warning for Safety y Do not open the device or attempt to disassemble or to modify it. y Do not look inside the device. If you expose your eyes to the la…
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17, Specification English -- E-13 -- 3.5. Supported CD-R and CD-RW Discs Supported Discs This drive can write to discs that carry the following logos: CD-R discs This CD-RW drive can write to these discs at 8x, 12x, 16x, 24x, 32x, 40x, 48x, 52x speed. These discs can be played back in a CD-ROM drive or a CD player. CD-RW discs This CD-RW drive can write/re-write at …
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16, AOpen CRW5232 Specification -- E-12 -- 8. Attach the audio cable if necessary. If you had another CD-ROM drive with audio cable attached, it is not necessary to attach audio cable for your CD-R/RW. 9. Put your computer cover back on. Be careful of any sharp edges, which might be hidden inside your computer. 10. Plug in your computer power cord, and turn on the computer.
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6, Introduction -- E-2 -- 2. Introduction 2.1. Overview Thank you for purchasing AOpen CD-R/RW drive. In this manual, we will explain how to install your CD-R/RW drive correctly. Please read this manual carefully before using the drive. Just Link Just Link is a new technology developed independently by Ricoh that automatically prevents buffer under-run errors by predicting them before they happen. AOpen CD-R/RW drive features Just Link technology to enable stable writing in the following situations where buffer under-run errors may …
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25, AOpen CRW5232 Specification English -- E-21 -- Enhanced Music CD, CD + and CD Extra An expansion of Audio or Mixed-Mode CD consists of two sessions. The first session corresponds to CD-DA, while the second session consists of computer data. The process is specified in the Blue Book. Finalization Finalization is the permanent closing of the writing procedure on a CD. After that, it cannot be written to, regardless of whether it was produced as a single-session or a multi-session CD…
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7, Introduction English -- E-3 -- enhancing reliability. High Compatibility The AOpen CD-R/RW drive supports all major CD formats, offering full backward-compatibility through the huge installed base of CD/ROM drives and media. What’s more, reordered CD/RW media can be played in a DVD player with multi-read feature, maintaining future compatibility. 2.2. Feat…
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24, Specification -- E-20 -- Appendix A. Glossary CD-DA Compact Disc - Digital Audio. The typical music CD is written with this CD format. At this time, up to 74 minutes of music can be written on a CD. The corresponding standard is the Red Book. CD-I Compact Disc - Interactive. This format allows the storage of different types of data such as images, music or video on a CD. The process is defined in the Green Book. CD-R …
