User manual FREECOM PORTABLE II

[. . . ] www. freecom. com CD / DVD / CD-RW COMBO CD-RW / DVD PORTABLE II Rev. 112 FREECOM Portable II Series GB FREECOM Portable II Cable II Change Adapter (only Cable II IEEE 1394 and Cable II Parallel) PARALLEL PORT Cable II IEEE 1394 (FireWire/i. LINK) Cable II USB (USB port) Cable II PCMCIA Cable II CardBus Cable II Parallel (printer port) Port options for the FREECOM drive Cable II Parallel (printer port) Cable II USB or Cable II IEEE 1394 Cable II PCMCIA (type II) Cable II CardBus (type II) 2 Table of Contents USERS MANUAL GB System Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Page Precautionary Measures and General Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Page 5 9 CHAPTER 1: Initial operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [. . . ] 3. 3 Peculiarities when writing audio CDs Please note that some older CD player models principally cannot read selfwritten CDs. Note: Audio files must have the proper format (stereo, 16 bit and 44. 1 kHz sampling frequency) and must be supported by the writing software, for example, *. wav. Please note that *. wav files cannot or have supported formats such as: mono, 8 bit. 14 Making Data or Audio CDs 3. 4 Making Data or Audio CDs The easiest way to make an audio or data CD is using the "CD Guide". The "CD Guide" appears when you first start "Easy CD Creator" and guides you step-bystep to make a simple data or audio CD. GB 3 Note: Detailed information on working with Easy CD Creator is to be found in the enclosed brief descriptions and in the software's Help Topics on the CD-recording software CD. 15 FREECOM Portable II Series GB 4 CHAPTER 4: Troubleshooting General problems (depending on the type of connection) If you still have problems getting your FREECOM drive to function properly despite having installed it correctly, then please check whether the FREECOM Cable II is properly connected to your FREECOM drive the drive is being supplied with power the tray can be opened and closed your system meets the hardware requirements (see pages 5/6) If the computer crashes during the software installation or when trying to run the software from the disk do not use any memory manager such as QEMM disable the system's Power Management. check if all the requirements contained in the instructions on the disk have been fulfilled. check if the FREECOM device is properly connected to the Cable check if the drive is being supplied with power when you boot your system If audio playback does not work, please check if the loudspeaker is properly connected the cables are firmly connected the loudspeaker control on the amplifier or on the active loudspeakers is correctly set the audio software is correctly installed. If your FREECOM drive appears to have problems accessing a CD after a long period of time, please use a lens cleaning set which you can purchase at your local computer retailer. Note: Please note that CD-RW drives (FREECOM Portable CD-RW / Combo CD-RW / DVD) must never be cleaned with a lens cleaning set! 16 Troubleshooting In addition, for the parallel port Use a slower transmission mode (EPP) If possible, switch the parallel port to another mode or to another address. GB 4 If the printer is not working correctly, please check if the printer has been properly connected the FREECOM System was switched on the printer software is set to unidirectional communication Note: When installing a printer for the first time under Windows 95/98 and DOS/Windows 3. x, the printer should be directly connected to the PC. 17 FREECOM Portable II Series FREECOM Internet Service GB 4 FREECOM Technologies makes the following service available in the Internet under www. freecom. com Online information about technical problems current product information Drivers, driver updates and software information Support Hotline The following hotlines are available if you still are unable to get your FREECOM device to work properly after reading the manual and the suggestions for correcting errors: Hotline Deutschland & Österreich France & Belgique (F) Nederland & België (N) Schweiz (D) Suisse (F) +49 (0) 203 768 0950 +33 (0) 1 34 04 72 05 +31 (0) 15 888 0110 +41 (0) 848 88 99 10 +41 (0) 848 88 77 10 Email supportde@freecom. com supportfr@freecom. com supportnl@freecom. com supportde@freecom. com supportfr@freecom. com supportuk@freecom. com United Kingdom & Ireland +44 (0) 1423 704 715 All other countries: Please apply to your local FREECOM Reseller or email to: supportint@freecom. com If possible, try to call from a phone near your computer. Please have the following information on hand for your call: the serial number on the rear side of your FREECOM drive and the serial no of the Cable II the revision no. of the Cable driver disk/CD information on the power supply the version number of your operating system and the software you are having problems with the precise error description or error message displayed the name and the model of your computer and, in case it is needed, the installed hardware Is the problem reproduced every time?If it is a new one, have you recently changed your system configuration? 18 Glossary - List of key words CHAPTER 5: Glossary - List of key words Audio CD See CD-DA Bridge Disk CDs which can be read by CD-ROM/XA drives and CD-I players, for example a Kodak Photo CD. Blue Book Specification for CD-Extra (formerly CD-Plus) Buffer underrun When the write memory of the drive is empty, the writing procedure will be terminated The flow of data from the system to the drive was insufficient. Either the transfer rate is too low for the writing speed or there was an interruption in the data flow. CD-DA CD-DA stands for "CD Digital Audio" and is the known audio CD standard described in the Red Book. It contains audio data that is to say music and can be played back in CD-ROM drives which support audio CDs as well as in normal CD players in stereo systems. The audio data is stored as so-called "frames" with a length of 1/75 of a second. Each sample uses two bytes (16 bit), and two channels are stored (left and right). This results in a sector size of 44, 1000 x 2x 2 /75 = 2352 bytes per frame which corresponds to the size of a physical block on a CD. CD-I CD-Interactive, special CD format defined in the Green Book The CD-I track is not entered into the TOC (CD directory). Some older CD players incorrectly recognize the CD-I track as an audio track and attempt to play it back accordingly. CD-R CompactDisc-Recordable, designation for recordable CDs CD-ROM (Single and Multisesssion) CD-ROM describes a CD which contains computer data much like a hard disk. CD-XA XA stands for "Extended Architecture" and is a standard for Multimedia CDs containing audio and computer data. GB 5 19 FREECOM Portable II Series Defragmenting A hard disk can be defragmented using the DOS command 'defrag' or a similar tool from other operating systems. Due to the fact that files are constantly deleted and new ones written to the hard disk, files are no longer grouped together in physically contiguous blocks but instead are scattered, i. e. [. . . ] For the writing procedure, only the file to be written is transferred. The CPU load ( C entral P rocessing U nit) remains small and cannot cause disruption. When creating several identical CDs, the physical image is less time-consuming because the processing mentioned above only has to be carried out once. "Raw" Files A "raw" file contains data which is already in CD format. [. . . ]