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[. . . ] LaCie Slim DVD±RW Drive User Manual
FireWire / LightScribe / Toast 7 Titanium
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Table of Contents
Foreword Precautions 1. UnpackingYourLaCieDrive 1. 1. MinimumSystemRequirements 2. GettingConnected 2. 1. InstalltheRecordingSoftware 2. 1. 1. InstallingtheRecordingSoftware 2. 1. 2. InstallingtheLightScribeLabelerSoftware 2. 2. ConnecttheFireWireCabletotheDriveandtoYourComputer 3. UsingYourLaCieDrive 3. 1. SupportedDVDandCDFormats 3. 1. 1. CDandDVDMediaDefinitions 3. 1. 2. DVD-VideoZone 3. 2. InsertingDiscs 3. 3. EjectingDiscs 3. 4. EmergencyEjectionofDiscs 3. 5. AccessingDiscs 3. 6. WritingDiscs 3. 6. 1. DVD±RWWritingMethods 3. 6. 2. CDWritingMethods 4. HelpfulInformation 4. 1. AdviceforOptimizingFireWireConnections 4. 1. 1. WhatIsFireWire? 4. 1. 2. DisconnectingFireWireDevices 4. 1. 3. DataTransfers 4. 2. UserAdviceonMPEG-IIDecoders 4. 3. FileSystemFormats-Definitions 4. 4. DVDCapacity 5. Troubleshooting 6. ContactingCustomerSupport 7. Warranty 2 4 6 7 9 9 9 9 10 11 11 12 14 15 16 16 17 17 17 18 19 19 19 20 21 22 22 23 24 28 30
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Copyrights Copyright©2006LaCie. Allrightsreserved. Nopartofthispublicationmaybereproduced, storedinaretrievalsystem, or transmittedinanyformorbyanymeans, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recordingorotherwise, withouttheprior writtenconsentofLaCie. Trademarks Apple, Mac, MacintoshandFireWireareregisteredtrademarksofAppleComputer, Inc. SonyandiLinkareregistered trademarksofSonyElectronics. Microsoft, Windows, Windows98SE, WindowsMillenniumEdition, Windows2000and WindowsXPareregisteredtrademarksofMicrosoftCorporation. Alltrademarksmentionedinthismanualaretheproperty oftheirrespectiveowners. Changes Thematerialinthisdocumentisforinformationonlyandissubjecttochangewithoutnotice. Whilereasonableeffortshave beenmadeinthepreparationofthisdocumenttoassureitsaccuracy, LaCieassumesnoliabilityresultingfromerrorsor omissionsinthisdocument, orfromtheuseoftheinformationcontainedherein. LaCiereservestherighttomakechanges orrevisionsintheproductdesignortheproductmanualwithoutreservationandwithoutobligationtonotifyanypersonof suchrevisionsandchanges. [. . . ] IMPoRTaNTINFo:Atthetimeofpublication, ifyourMacdoesnothaveanative, built-inDVD-ROMorCombo (CDRWandDVD-ROM)Drive, AppledoesnotsupportDVD-Videoplaybackoverexternal, third-partyDVDdrives.
. . Writing Discs
Thefollowingisabriefoverviewofsomeoftherecordingterminologytohelpyouunderstandhowtouseyourdrivetowrite discs. IMPoRTaNTINFo:Pleaserefertoyourrecordingsoftware'suserguideforinformationonhowtobestuseyour LaCieSlimDVD±RWdriveinwritemode.
ISO9660, astandardpublishedbytheInternationalOrganizationforStandardization, definesafilesystemforCDand DVD-ROMmedia. ItsupportsdifferentcomputeroperatingsystemssuchasMicrosoftWindows, MacOS, andsystemsthat followtheUnixspecification, toensuredataexchange. MacuserscanchoosetocreateMac-only, ISO9660orHybridCD/DVD-ROMs(Mac&PC).
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ISO9660isthestandardforcross-platformuse, butdoesnotsupportcustomfeaturesoftheMacfilesystemsuchaslong filenamesoriconoptions. Hybriddiscs(Mac&PC)containtwopartitions:onetobeviewedbyMacusers, oneforWindowsusers. Toast7Titaniumallowsyoutohavedifferentcontentoneachpartition.
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LaCie Slim DVD±RW Drive User Manual
FireWire / LightScribe / Toast 7 Titanium . . . DVD±RW Writing Methods
Using Your LaCie Drive
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Disc at Once (DAO) ADVDwritingprocessinwhichtheentireDVDisrecordedinonesession, anddatacannotbe addedaftertherecordingisfinished. DiffersfromtheCD-RDAOmethodbecausethelead-in, dataareaandlead-outareas areallwrittensequentially. Incremental Recording (IR)ADVDwritingprocessthatissimilartotheSessionatOnce(SAO)CD-Rwritingmethod;files maybeaddeddirectlytotheDVD-Rdisconerecordingatatime, insteadofrecordingthefilestoaharddrivebeforewritingthedisc. Theminimumrecordedsize, though, mustbeatleast32KB(evenifthefiletoberecordedissmallerthanthat), andcapacitiesandwritespeedsaredecreasedduetotheoverheadofcombinedlead-in/outareasanddata. Also, thedisc mustbefinalizedbeforeitmaybeplayedbackbyadriveotherthanthedriverecordingthedisc. Multi-Border Recording (MBR)ADVDwritingprocessthatisverysimilartoIR, MBRallowsyoutomakeanIRdiscand thenplaythediscbackonadevicethatrecognizesthistypeofrecordingmethod. MBRcreatesaveryshortboundaryzone aroundarecordingsessionsoacompatibleplayerorDVD-ROMdrivedoesnotattempttoplaybeyondtheborderofthe recordedarea, insteadallowingtheunfinalizeddisctobereadbyaplayerthatsupportsthisrecordingmethod. Restricted Overwriting (RO)ADVDwritingprocessthatonlyappliestoSlimDVD±RWdiscs. Withthismethod, ifadisc hasalreadybeenwrittento, newdatasegmentscanberandomlyinsertedanywherewithintherecordedboundary. New data, however, canonlybeaddedtoanareaofthediscthathasalreadybeenrecordedoverandfromthepointwherethe lastsessionwasstopped. Session at Once (SAO)ADVDwritingprocesswhichissimilartoDAO, wherealloftheinformationiswritteninonesession, butSAOallowsfortheabilitytobeginanothersessionandrecordatalatertime. Thismodeallowsforgreatercontrol oftherecordingprocessthanPacketWriting(PW)orTAO, andmorediscspacecanbeutilizedbecausethereisnoneed forgapsbetweentracks. Packet Writing (PW)Awritingprocessthatisveryusefulfordatabackup. Bufferunderrun*isimpossibleinthismode, becausethedataiswrittenin"packets"ofafewKBs.
. . . CD Writing Methods
Disc at Once (DAO)ACDwritingprocessinwhichtheentireCDisrecordedinonesession, anddatacannotbeadded aftertherecordingisfinished. ThismodeallowsforthemostcontroloftherecordingprocessforaudioCDsbecausethegap betweentrackscanbesetandthemaximumcapacityoftheCDcanbeutilized. Packet Writing (PW)ACDwritingprocessthatisveryusefulfordatabackup, butcannotbeusedtowriteaudioCDs. Bufferunderrun*isimpossibleinthismode, becausethedataiswrittenin"packets"ofafewKBs.
LaCie Slim DVD±RW Drive User Manual
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Using Your LaCie Drive
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Session at Once (SAO)ACDwritingprocesswhichissimilartoDAO, wherealloftheinformationiswritteninonesession, butSAOallowsfortheabilitytobeginanothersessionandrecordatalatertime. Thismodeallowsforgreatercontrol oftherecordingprocessthanPWorTAO, andmorediscspacecanbeutilizedbecausethereisnoneedforgapsbetween tracks. Track at Once (TAO)ACDwritingprocesswheredataisaddedonetrackatatime, andthedatacanbeaddedata latertime. TheCDbeingwrittento, though, canonlybereadintheCDrewritabledrivethatisrecordingituntilthediscis finalized(meaningthatnomoredatacanbeadded). Thereisalsoagapof2secondsaddedbetweentracks, whichwillbe heardasnoiseinsomeaudioplayers. Technical noTe:*Buffer UnderrunTherecordingofadiscisasystem-intensiveapplication, andtherewritable driveneedsaconstantstreamofdata. Abufferunderrunoccurswhenthestreamofdatatotherewritabledriveisnot fastenoughtokeeptherewritabledrive'sbufferfull, causingtheanerrorintherecordingprocess. Ifthisproblemoccursoften, turndowntherecordingspeedandconsultsection4. 1AdviceforOptimizingFireWireConnections.
LaCie Slim DVD±RW Drive User Manual
FireWire / LightScribe / Toast 7 Titanium
Helpful Information
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. Advice For Optimizing FireWire Connections
ThefollowingtechnicalinformationrelatestoyourLaCieSlimDVD±RWDriveandgivessomepracticaladvice:
. . . What is FireWire/IEEE 9?
Aserialbususedtoconnectexternalcomputerandconsumerelectronic devicestocomputersandconsumerelectronicconsoles. "1394"isanabbreviationofIEEE1394, thenamegiventothishighperformanceserialbus. IEEE(theInstituteofElectricalandElectronic Engineers)isthenameoftheengineeringcorpsthatdevelopedthis standard. The1394referstothe1, 394thstandardthattheIEEEhas produced. What is the relationship between IEEE 9, FireWire, iLink and DV?Thesefournamesallrefertothesameinterface: ·IEEE1394-thenameofthestandard, usedinthecomputerindustry. ·FireWire-thebrandnameusedbyApple. [. . . ] IfrecordingfromCDorDVD-ROMtodisc, makesurethat thespeedofthesourcedeviceishighenoughtoprovidea sufficientdatastreamtotheLaCiedrive. Reducethewrite speedoftheLaCiedriveusingtheappropriatemenuinthe recordingsoftware.
DVD-Videoplaybackwill AreyouusingaMac?notwork.
Thisisnormal. Forlegalreasons, ifyoudonothaveabuilt-in DVD-ROMorComboDrive, yourLaCieDVDDrivecannotcurrentlybeusedforDVD-VideoplaybackonaMac.
EnsurethattheMPEG-IIsoftwarehasbeeninstalledcorrectly. DVD-Videoplaybackwill HaveyouinstalledtheappropriateMPEG-IIdecoder SeethehelpsectionofthesoftwareprogramformoreinformanotworkunderWindows. ConsultthehelpsectionofyourDVDplaybacksoftwarefor HastheLaCiedrivebeen setasthedefaultDVDdrive informationonhowtoconfigureyourdriveasyourcomputer's defaultDVDplayer. [. . . ]
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