Yamaha CRW4416E - CRW - CD-RW Drive User Manual

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97List of Supported RecordersSCSI DrivesAcer CR-1420CDynaTek CDM-4000HP CD-Writer 6020HP SureStore 4020Imation CDR 8x20Imation CDRW 8x2x20 ExternalIma

98DISCRIBE CD Mastering SoftwarePhilips CDD522Philips OMNIWRITER 2x6Philips OMNIWRITER 2x6 (OEM)Philips SCSI Rewriteable 2x2x6Pinnacle Micro RCD 4x4Pi

99SANYO BurnProof CRD-BP2 12x4x32 SANYO CRD-R800S 8x20SANYO CRD-R800S 8x20 (GENERIC) SANYO CRD-RW1 8x2x20SANYO CRD-RW1 8x2x20 (GENERIC)SANYO CRD-RW2

100DISCRIBE CD Mastering SoftwareATAPI/Firewire/USB DrivesDVD-RAM/R/-RW/+RW:Apple SuperDrivePioneer DVD-RW DVR-103Matsushita DVD-RAM/R LF-D310Matsushi

101Mitsumi 4x8 CR-4801TMitsumi Rewriteable 4x2x8 Mitsumi Rewriteable 4x4x8Mitsumi CR-48X8TE 16x10x40Mitsumi CR-48X9TE 24x12x40Mitsumi CR-48XATE 32x12x

102DISCRIBE CD Mastering SoftwareQPS CDRW/RW SM-208B 8x4x32 QPS CDRW/RW SW-212B 12x8x32 QPS CR-4802TE 4x2x8QPS CR-48X8TE 16x10x40QPS CR-48X9TE 24x12x4

103Ricoh MiniCDRW 4x4x20-ATAPI (MP)Ricoh MiniCDRW 4x4x20-ATAPI (RW)Ricoh Rewriteable MP6200ASamsung CDRW/DVD SM-308B 8x4x32 Samsung CDRW/RW SM-208B 8x

104DISCRIBE CD Mastering SoftwareWAITEC Rewriteable WT2422EIWearns CDRW 4x4x24Yamaha CDR401 Yamaha CRW2100E 16x10x40Yamaha CRW2200E 20x10x40Yamaha Rew

105If your drive is not on this list it may still be supported. CharisMac Engi-neering™ continues to qualify and add support for additional drives. Co

106DISCRIBE CD Mastering Software

8 DISCRIBE CD Mastering Software Getting Technical Support CharisMac is serious about customer satisfaction. If you encounter difficulty installing or

9 Overview A Word About CD-R and CD-RW CD-R is the term used to denote CD-Recordable me-dia, or discs. CD-R discs are recorded permanently. Once inf

10 DISCRIBE CD Mastering Software ed by the Discribe splash screen. After a few seconds the splash screen will give way to Discribe’s Quick Start men

11 You’ll also find buttons that provide you with addition-al information about your recorder and disc informa-tion for the disc in the recorder. Addi

12 DISCRIBE CD Mastering SoftwareAdding Audio Tracks Drag AIFF, MP3, WAV, Sound Designer II (SDII) files or tracks from mounted Audio CDs to the windo

13 • Stereo• 16 Bit• 44.1 KHz Tip: SDII, MP3 and WAV files will be converted into this format, files added from a mounted audio CD do not have to be co

14 DISCRIBE CD Mastering SoftwareSequencing Audio Tracks Click the Audio... button and you will be presented with an Audio Picker window.Click and

15 length of time.NOTE Note: The first audio track must have a pre-gap of two and is not user definable. By default, Discribe will set the pre-gaps of

16 DISCRIBE CD Mastering Software This also allows you to listen to the tracks and make sure that the tracks are sequenced the way you want them. Pre

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17 write speed that the current selected writer supports. Open Next Session - Writes to the disc leaving the disc open for another session to be wri

18 DISCRIBE CD Mastering Software Creating A Data CD From Discribe’s Quick Start menu click the Data CD button.Notice the change in Discribe’s inte

19 into the window. Click the Data... Button Click the Data... button to reveal the Macintosh HFS Picker window. Here you can drag files from the de

20 DISCRIBE CD Mastering Software name editing window will appear. Macintosh HFS Picker Options Resolve Aliases - When this option is checked alias

21 Writing the CD Once the data has been added and arranged to your sat-isfaction just click OK to return to the Discribe main window. Verify that th

22 DISCRIBE CD Mastering Software Copying a CD From the Discribe Quick Start menu click the Copy a CD button. Notice the change in Discribe’s inter

23 the current CD in the Source drive. Writing the CD Verify that the correct CD-RW writer is selected then click the Write Disc... button. The Wri

24 DISCRIBE CD Mastering Software Discribe Pull-Down Menus A quick overview of all of Discribe’s pull-down menus reveals many useful functions: File

25 with Discribe according to your specific needs: Preferences: Application Startup Show Disable Inits Warning - When this box is checked a warning w

26 DISCRIBE CD Mastering Software audio tracks, whether AIFF, MP3, WAV or SDII created during the audio extraction process. Default to Disc-at-once a

THE EXCLUSION OR LIMITATION OF INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUEN-TIAL DAMAGES, SO THE ABOVE LIMITATIONS OR EXCLUSIONS MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU. THE WARRANTY ABOVE

27 Utilities Pull-Down Menu Recorder Information - Shows information on the currently selected recorder Disc Information - Shows information of the

28 DISCRIBE CD Mastering Software Support - Selecting this item takes you to the Discribe support section of our website Product - Selecting this i

29 Discribe’s Other Functions If the disc format you wish to write to CD is not a part of the Quick Start menu, don’t fret. Discribe has a host of ot

30 DISCRIBE CD Mastering Software intosh HFS option. Macintosh HFS The Macintosh HFS function copies data from a mounted volume to a CD. The volume c

31NOTE Note: It is not recommended that you write CDs from mounted server volumes. Server traffic can be unpredictable in nature and can cause a write

32DISCRIBE CD Mastering Softwareyou’ve dragged over.Create a Mac / ISO Hybrid - Checking this op-tion allows you to create a Hybrid CD-ROM (cov-ered l

33Adding AudioDiscribe will allow you to add audio to the end of your data track, if you wish to add audio you can simply drag-n-drop an audio file on

34DISCRIBE CD Mastering SoftwareISO-9660Discribe has the ability to create ISO-9660 CD-ROM discs for use with Windows based personal computers. This f

35give to your written CD-ROM. Like:• Publisher ID• Data Preparer ID• Application ID• Copyright File ID• Abstract File ID• Bibliography FileEdit Your

36DISCRIBE CD Mastering Softwaredesired, turning the arrows down on a folder reveals the data inside. You can drag and drop files in new fold-ers to ch

i Introduction 4Getting Started 5 System Requirements 5Installing Discribe 5 Getting Technical Support 8Overview 9 A Word About CD-R and CD-RW

37Cancel - Returns you to the main Discribe software window without saving any changesOK - Saves changes to the current project.Select the options tha

38DISCRIBE CD Mastering SoftwareISO-9660 XADiscribe has the ability to create ISO-9660 XA CD-ROM disk for use with Windows based personal com-puters.

39• Application ID• Copyright File ID• Abstract File ID• Bibliography FileEdit Your DataThe next step is to edit the file list for your ISO-9660 XA CD

40DISCRIBE CD Mastering SoftwareAt the bottom of the ISO 9660 Picker are options that are useful in the creation of your ISO-9660 CD-ROM.Resolve Alias

41Open Next Session, Write Speed and Verify After Writing, then click the Start button to begin the write process.A Word About Multi-Session ISO-9660

42DISCRIBE CD Mastering SoftwareAudio CDAdding Audio TracksDrag AIFF, MP3, WAV, Sound Designer II (SDII) files or tracks from mounted Audio CDs to the

43prompt you where you would like the files saved to.Click the Audio... button and you will be presented with an Audio Picker window. This window will

44DISCRIBE CD Mastering Softwarefiles).Setting Audio Tracks Pre-GapsClick the Audio... button and you will be presented with an Audio Picker window.Dis

45NOTENote: The first audio track must have a pre-gap of two and is not user definable. By default, Discribe will set the pre-gaps of tracks 2 and highe

46DISCRIBE CD Mastering SoftwareWriting the CDOnce the data has been added and arranged to your sat-isfaction just click OK to return to the Discribe

ii DISCRIBE CD Mastering Software Creating an Image 56 Writing the Saved Image to CD 56 CD to CD-RW Copy 57 Select Your Read Device 57 CD Ex

47Build-A-Mac HFSDiscribe has the ability to write a Macintosh HFS CD-ROM without the use of another volume for your data to reside on.You can proceed

48DISCRIBE CD Mastering Softwarewhen it mounts on the desktop.Macintosh HFS Picker OptionsResolve Aliases - When this option is checked alias files wil

49ware window without saving any changesOK - Saves changes to the current project.Writing the CDOnce the data has been added and arranged to your sat-

50DISCRIBE CD Mastering SoftwareMac/ISO HybridDiscribe has the ability to write a Macintosh HFS CD-ROM along with ISO-9660 data on the same CD-ROM. Th

51You will be presented with the following dialog box: Within the dialog box, select the mounted volume you wish to use for your Mac / shared data. Fo

52DISCRIBE CD Mastering Software9660 Picker window. This means that they are shared. Good job.Set up the options in the ISO-9660 picker window as desi

53placing spaces with underscores and changing all letters to uppercase. For example, a file called, “CD Artwork For Ad,” will be changed to, “CD_ARTWO

54DISCRIBE CD Mastering SoftwareDisc Copy ImageCopies a disc image previously saved to your hard disk by Discribe using the Copy Disc... function unde

55CD to CD-RW CopyA very useful function is Discribe’s direct CD to CD copy function.This function allows you to use another CD-ROM or CD-RW drive to

56DISCRIBE CD Mastering SoftwareSpeed and Verify After Writing, then click the Start button to begin the write process.NOTENote: Take care in selectin

3 PLEASE RECORD RESPONSIBLY. BEFORE COPYING ANYTHING ONTO A CD-RW OR CD-R DISC, PLEASE BE SURE YOU ARE NOT VIOLAT-ING COPYRIGHT LAWS. MOST SOFTWARE C

57CD ExtraCD Extra CD-ROMs are CDs which contain Audio and Data on the same CD. It is essentially a two ses-sion CD-ROM, on which Discribe writes the

58DISCRIBE CD Mastering Softwareinterface window, or you can click the Audio... button to open up the Audio Picker window. Using the audio picker you

59Video CDA Video CD is a CD that contains MPEG 1 data that can be watched on your computer and/or many com-mercial DVD players). Discribe can create

60DISCRIBE CD Mastering Softwarerearrange your MPEG streams to suit your needs.NOTEDiscribe will reject incompatible files by not allowing them to be a

61Writing the CDVerify that the correct CD-RW writer is selected then click the Write Disc... button. Set up your options for Test Write, Using BURN-P

62DISCRIBE CD Mastering SoftwareDVD Video/AudioDiscribe’s DVD (Digital Versatile Disc) Video/Audio function allows you to write DVD video and audio as

63Video in Discribe’s format pop-up menu. Notice the option in the main window called Include Desktop Database, in general when writing a DVD disk use

64DISCRIBE CD Mastering Softwarefor your guidelines. DVD Picker OptionsResolve Aliases - When this option is checked alias files will be resolved to th

65ware window without saving any changesOK - Saves changes to the current project.If you have the DVD Picker window open click OK to return to Discrib

66DISCRIBE CD Mastering SoftwareUniversal Disk Format (UDF)This format allows data to be written in the UDF For-mat (Universal Disc Format) and is cro

4 DISCRIBE CD Mastering Software Introduction Thank You for purchasing CharisMac Discribe, the Ul-timate CD Recording software! Discribe was designed

67Drag in any data (including DVD video) that you would like written to the media into the main Discribe window or click the Data... button to open Di

68DISCRIBE CD Mastering SoftwareDVD Picker OptionsResolve Aliases - When this option is checked alias files will be resolved to the original when they’

69TroubleshootingThe following list includes some common problems that might be encountered while working to create your CD.Q: Does Discribe work with

70DISCRIBE CD Mastering Softwarenot see the drive, here are a few more suggestions:1. Quit Discribe and then cycle the power on your CD-RW drive (turn

71consumed in accessing them may cause the recorder’s buffers to “run out” of information temporarily. Dur-ing the actual write process, this would ma

72DISCRIBE CD Mastering SoftwareNote that SCSI IDs 0, 3 (internal CD player), and 7 are generally re-served for the Macintosh itself.ATAPI - It is pos

73Glossary of CD and DVD TermsAC-3 Dolby® digital surround sound for DVD-Video capable of playing 5.1 discrete channels of audio for the ultimate in s

74DISCRIBE CD Mastering SoftwareASMO (Previously called MO7) a high capacity Mag-neto-Optical drive capable of storing up to 7Gb of computer data, on

75of errors detected in the user data block.Bridge Disc A technique for storing data on a CD-ROM/XA disc that allows it to be played back on a CD-I an

76DISCRIBE CD Mastering SoftwareCD-DA Compact Disc-Digital Audio. Jointly devel-oped by Philips and Sony and launched in 1983, CD-DA is the first and m

5 Getting Started System Requirements Before installing Discribe, check that you have these minimum system requirements: • Power PC or greater Macint

77ins. The CD-MO standard is defined in Part I of the Or-ange Book, but the technology never took off and has been replaced with CD-ReWritable (CD-RW).

78DISCRIBE CD Mastering Softwarethe same formats and capacities of CD-R discs, but are fully erasable and rewritable. The CD-RW discs can be rewritten

79a disc spins a constant speed, with the result that the tracks nearest the center pass under the reading head at a lower speed that the tracks neare

80DISCRIBE CD Mastering SoftwareDisc or Optical Disc Throughout this glossary, disc with a “c” is used for optical media, since that is the spelling u

81standard CD-ROM, DVD-ROM, DVD-R, and DVD-Video discs. DVD-RAM discs are housed in a car-tridge similar to an MO cartridge, and cannot be read by sta

82DISCRIBE CD Mastering Softwaretaining up to 98 audio tracks in the first session, and usually 1 data track in the second session. Enhanced CD came ab

83pre-formed track spiral, which the recording laser beam will follow when inscribing information onto the disc. This type of disc is therefore called

84DISCRIBE CD Mastering Softwarestandard interface for hard disk drives since the early 90s. Since IDE had some limitations (only 2 devices could be s

85ISO Image Or CD-ROM Image, image, or disc im-age. An exact representation of the entire set of data and programs, as it will appear on CD, in terms

86DISCRIBE CD Mastering Softwaredisc with 2 sides, with up to 2 layers per side, giving a total disc capacity of up to 17GB!Layered EDC/ECC See EDC an

6 DISCRIBE CD Mastering Software recorder to not be seen by the Discribe software. Discribe must be installed on a hard disk. Once you have installed

87This glass master is then used to create the stamper that will be used to replicate mass quantities of discs.Megabyte (MB) A measure of data storage

88DISCRIBE CD Mastering SoftwareVideo CD. MPEG-2 is a much higher level of quality (720 x 480 @ 60 fields per second), and is used for full length moti

89ser to the disc using the Power Calibration Area (PCA) area on the recordable disc. See also PCA, Running OPCOrange Book The Philips/Sony specificati

90DISCRIBE CD Mastering Softwareon a conventional stamped CD. CD-ReWritable (CD-RW) and DVD-RAM is based on Phase Change tech-nology.PhotoCD See Kodak

91the polycarbonate substrate for the recording laser beam to follow when writing data onto the disc.Pre-Master The may be a tape, hard disk drive, CD

92DISCRIBE CD Mastering SoftwareReal-Time In Compact Discs, refers to the playing or recording time as these processes are actually taking place. Also

93laser power to a CD-R or CD-RW disc. Running OPC continuously monitors the laser power, and can adjust the laser power “on the fly” to compensate for

94DISCRIBE CD Mastering SoftwareTrack Adjacent bands of the data spiral on a Compact Disc. A Compact Disc (of any format) may have up to 99 tracks.Tra

95performance devices such as keyboards, mice, and some storage products such as lower performance CD-RW and floppy drives. Bandwidth is only about 1.2

96DISCRIBE CD Mastering Softwarethe Red Book digital audio standard.