Emprex USB 2.0 External Drive manual

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    16X DVD±R/RW Writer ±R 16X/+R DL 4X/ +RW 8X /–RW 4X USB 2.0 External Drive User’s Manual[...]

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    CAUTION CLASS 3B VISIBLE AND INVISIBLE LASER RADIATION WHEN OPEN. AVOID DIRECT EXPOSURE TO BEAM. VORSICHT KLASSE 3B SICHTBARE UND UNSICHTBAR E LASERSTRAHLUNG WENN GEOFFNET. NICHT IN DEN STRAHL SEHEN. ATTENTION RADIATION DU FAISCEAU LASER VISIBLES ET INVISIBLES DE CLASSE 3B EN CAS D'OUVERTURE. EVITER TOUTE EXPOSITION AUX RAYONS. Copyright State[...]

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    FCC Warning Statement This equipment has been tested and found to co mp ly with the limits for a Class B digital device, pursuant to P a rt 15 of the FCC Ru les. These limits ar e designed to provide reasonable protection agains t harmful interfer ence in a residential installation. This equipment gen erates, uses and can radiate radi o frequency e[...]

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    Table of Contents INTRODUCTION 1 A BOUT USB 2 S YSTEM R EQUIREMENTS 3 P ACKAGE C ONTENT S 3 INSTALLATION 4 H ARDWARE I NSTALLATIO N 4 D RIVER I NSTALLATI ON 5 S OFTWARE P ACKAGE 5 DVD R EGION C ODING 6 A BOUT T HIS D RIVE 7 OPERA TION & C ONNEC TION 8 F RONT P ANEL 8 R EAR V IEW 9 TECHNICAL DATA 10 APPENDIX 13[...]

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    1 INTRODUCTION Accompanying the new DVD storage tec hnology, we are honor ed to present you a compact and multiformat external drive of USB 2. 0 interface: 8X DVD±R/RW Writer. This 16X DVD±R/RW Writer frees up precious bay space and offers more backup choices other than acting as a CD-R/RW drive and as a D VD-ROM reader. It supports dual formats [...]

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    2 ♦ Smooth DVD playback ♦ Compatible with most existing DVD-ROM drives and DVD video players ♦ Bundled with an extensive software package About USB USB (Universal Serial Bus), a means of attach ing devices to your computer, is basically a standardized intelligent serial connection which provides an expandabl e, hot-pluggable * 1 interface. De[...]

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    3 Sy stem Requirements For IBM compatible PCs, the sy stem requiremen ts recommended are as follows: ♦ Pentium III, 800MHz or above with at leas t 256MB of memory ♦ Minimum 2GB fr ee H a rd Disk space ♦ Operating system: Microsof t W indows 98SE/ME/2000/XP ♦ USB 2.0 PCI host card (I f there’s no USB 2.0 bui lt-in port on board.) Package C[...]

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    4 INSTALLATION Hardware Installation 1. Plug the power cable into the power outlet and the back of your external USB 2.0 drive separately. 2. Connect the USB cable to the USB port on your controller or your computer’s USB port. 3. Then connect th e other end of the USB cable to the back of your external USB 2.0 drive. 4. Power ON the drive by pre[...]

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    5 Note: ♦ Be sure to use the USB 2.0 cable packed with the d rive. ♦ Never plug or unplug in any ot her USB device while the drive is transferring data. It’s likely to loss data. ♦ It’s advisable not to disconnec t the drive or unpl ug the power to the drive while the applic ation disc is inserted. ♦ Don’t connect more than two C D-RW[...]

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    6 DVD Region Coding Region Playback Control Management All DVD Video Playback systems ha v e “Region Playback Control” management (RPC) which is required by Hollywood movie industry and defined by DVD Forum. This in cludes DVD-Video players and PC systems with DVD-Video capability. You can only play DVD-Video discs with the same region code as [...]

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    7 About This Drive This DVD±R/RW Writer is also a RPC2 DVD-ROM drive and according to DVD-Forum, PC chip must be designed into DVD-ROM drives to record how many times a user has changed the region code. Th e first region code will depend on the DVD title you play and you are allowed to modify the region code 5 times (including the initial one). Af[...]

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    8 OPERATION & CONNECTION Front Pane l 1. LED Indicator (dual color) Flashes “green” while veri fying or reading a disc. Flashes “amber” while writing discs. 2. Disc Tray Place the disc in the tray here, and then press th e Close/Eject button or lightly push the tr ay to close it. 3. Emergency Eject Hole If the Close/Eject button doesn?[...]

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    9 Rear View 1. USB Connector 2. D.C. Pow er Connector 3. Pow er (On/Off) Sw itch[...]

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    10 TECHNICAL DATA Interface USB 2.0 Disc Data Capacity DVD+/-R, DVD+/-RW: S ingle layer 4.7GB Double layer 8.5GB CD-R/RW: 74min/650MB, 80min/700MB Media supported for Wr iting DVD+R, DVD+ R DL, DVD-R, DVD+RW, DVD-RW, CD-R, CD-RW Writing Formats DVD+/-R, DVD+/-RW, DVD+R DL, DVD- ROM, DVD-Video CD-DA, CD-ROM, CD-ROM XA, CD-Extra, CD-I, Mixed-Mode CD,[...]

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    11 Data Transfer Rate CD -- Read CD-ROM/CD-R: 7200KB/sec (up to 48X) CD-RW: 4800KB/sec (up to 32X) CD -- Writ e CD-R: 7200 KB/sec (up to 48X) CD-RW: 3600 KB/sec (up to 24X) DVD -- Read DVD-ROM: 21632 KB /sec (up to 16X) DVD -- Writ e DVD+/-R: 21632 KB /sec (up to 16X) DVD+R DL: 5408 KB/sec (up to 4X) DVD+RW: 10816 KB/sec (up to 8X) DVD-RW: 5408KB/s[...]

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    12 Temperature Operating 5°C to 45°C Non-operating -20°C to 60°C Humidity Operating 8% ~ 80%RH Non-operating 5% ~ 95%RH[...]

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    13 APPENDIX DVD Forum The DVD Forum is an inte rnational organization made up of companies using or manufacturing digital versatile disc (DVD)-related products. The Forum was created in 1995 when ten companie s (Hitachi, Matsus hita, Mitsubishi, Philips, Pioneer, Sony, Thomson Multimedia, Ti me Warner, Toshiba Corporation, and Victo r) joined for t[...]

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    14 DVD Formats DVD Video Popular format for viewing movies and ot her visual entertainment with high quality MPEG2 video & digi tal surround sound. Enables multi-language, multi- subtitling and other adv anced user features. DVD Audio This audio-only storage format doubles the fidelity of sound effect comparing with a standard CD as well as lon[...]

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    3100552386 Version 1.0 July 2005[...]