User manual PHILIPS CDD3610

[. . . ] CD-RW discs can be erased, however, and used over and over, hundreds of times. To share data with users who have a standard CD-ROM drive. For use in older CD-ROM drives (which cannot read CDRW). To make weekly archives of your hard drive. [. . . ] When this operation has been performed, no more audio or data can be recorded to the CD. Place the disc that has not been closed into the CD-ReWriter or DVD+RW drive. Simply click the extra source material you want to record, and drag it from the Explorer window to the CD Layout window to add it to the existing content. Repeat this for each file and folder you want to record. Install 'Packet Writing' software on your computer to be able to access CD-R/RW discs directly in your CD-ReWriter or DVD+RW drive, just like any other disk drive to which data can be written. This software will load automatically each time you start Windows. It runs in the background, so that you may read and write from and to the CD-R/RW disc in the drive from within Windows Explorer or any other Windows application (word processor, spreadsheet, etc. The CD-R/RW disc used for this purpose stays 'open' and can only be read on computers that have 'Packet Writing' software or a UDF Reader installed. Alternatively, the 'Packet Writing' software can be used to close the current session, thereby making the disc readable for regular 'MultiRead' drives. After this, data can still be added to the disc by opening a new session. Should you have disabled the Blue Button program, you may re-activate it by clicking on the item `Blue Button' in your Philips program group (For Mac: open the Blue Button program file in the Applications/Blue Button map). You may also connect a digital or analog audio cable connector to the audio socket on the back of the drive to the left of the jumper, if you want to be able to play audio CDs through your sound card. Connect the other end of the sound cable to your sound card. See your sound card documentation for the options available to you. Computers usually have two data channels (IDE channels), with two device connectors each, for connecting a total of four internal devices to your computer. These devices may be hard disks, CD/DVD drives or any IDE-compatible devices. Two drives can thus be connected to the same cable. The computer is able to tell them apart by their jumper settings. The jumper is a little square plastic block set on the back of the drive and placed over one of three sets of two pins. Normally, Cable Select is not used so you will have a MASTER device and a SLAVE device on same cable. The Cable Select option requires a special IDE cable and is not normally used for personal computers. For the CD-ReWriter or DVD+RW drive, please use the jumper setting recommended to you during Setup from the installation CD. [. . . ] Unfortunately, in some cases, the quality of these discs is not in accordance with global standards for this media. There may be areas on the disc surface with an insufficient amount of recording medium (in addition to scratches, dirt marks or other surface defects), or even gross mechanical damage which results in imbalance. Unfortunately, there is no reliable way a consumer can judge what he or she is buying (there exists no universal authoritative quality logo on the disc packaging). So when you buy and "burn" what are effectively sub-standard discs, any resulting problems are more likely to be attributed to the CD drive unit than to the disc. [. . . ]