LaCie 1038 - Manuals

General Use Precautions: • Do not expose the drive to temperatures outside the range of 5° C to 45° C (41° F to 104° F). Doing so may damage thedrive or disfigure its casing. Avoid placing your drive near a source of heat or exposing it to sunlight (even through awindow). Inversely, placing your dri...

1. Unpacking Your LaCie CD-RW Drive: You’ll tear through your work with your new LaCie Combo CD-RW Drive. Boasting over 485 times the capacity of floppydisks, CD media is the perfect tool for sharing information between different systems. You can create discs full of worddocuments, spreadsheets, mus...

2. Getting Connected Follow these steps to quickly get your LaCie Drive powered on and connected to your computer. Click ona step to get started! 2.1. Install the Recording Software2.2. Connect the Power Supply and Switch On the Drive2.3. Connect the USB 2.0 Cable to Your LaCie Drive and to Your Com...

Step 2.1. – From you LaCie CD Utilities CD-ROM, open the software folders, click on the install icons (Windows Users: click on theSetup.exe icon; Mac Users: double-click the Installer icon) of the various programs and follow the on-screen instructions toinstall the programs. For more information abo...

Option A 1) Insert the round end of the external power supply into the port on the rear of your drive. 2) Plug the large end of the external power supply into a properly grounded electrical outlet. 3) Slide the switch to the "EXT" position . Warning! Use only the AC adapter supplied with you...

Step 2.3. – Connect the USB 2.0 cable to your LaCie Drive and to your computer. 1) Examine the cable carefully and make sure that you have the USB 2.0 cable properly aligned, then insert the cable firmlyinto the USB port on the back of the drive for a stable connection. 2) Look for a USB 2.0* logo (...

3. Using Your LaCie CD-RW Drive Your LaCie CD-RW Drive will let you create, save and share your digital files to CD-R and CD-RW media. The includedsoftware will allow you to format and write to both CD-R and CD-RW discs. CD-R Discs: • Best sutied for: recording audio CDs, store photos and data CDs.•...

3.2. Inserting Discs To insert a disc, push the Open/Close (#1) button onyour LaCie CD-RW Drive. When the disc tray opens,put the CD media into the tray with the label sidefacing up. Make sure the CD is correctly placed inthe center of the disc tray. Gently push in the disc trayor push the load/ejec...

3.4. Emergency Ejection of Discs In the event that a CD cannot be ejected with the Open/Close button and the software is not controlling the drive, use theemergency eject operation to open the disc tray. First, switch off your computer and the CD-RW drive and unplug the drive'spower. Warning! Make s...

4. Helpful Information 4.1. Advice For Optimizing USB 2.0 Connections The following technical information relates to your LaCie CD-RW Drive and gives some practical advice: 4.1.1 What is USB 2.0? The new USB 2.0 standard provides higher bandwidth for high-speed peripherals suchas external hard drive...

4.1.2. Disconnecting USB Devices USB external devices feature "plug & play" connection. This means that your drive can be connected and disconnected whilethe computer is running. To prevent failures, it is important you follow these steps when disconnecting your USB device. Windows Users...

4.2 User Advice on MPEG-II Decoders All DVD-Video material is compressed using MPEG-II compression. DVD-Video, with full-motion video and multi-channelsound (multi-lingual soundtracks, surround sound, etc.), is a data-hungry application. Without compression, you would onlybe able to fit a 5-minute m...

5. Troubleshooting In the event that your LaCie CD-RW Drive is not working correctly, please refer to the following checklist to find out where theproblem is coming from. If you have gone through all of the points on the checklist and your drive is still not workingcorrectly, please have a look at t...

Troubleshooting page 21 LaCie Slim Combo CD-RW Drive User’s Manual The Issue The drive is notrecognized. Questions to Ask Are the USB drivers installedcorrectly and enabled? Is there a conflict with other devicedrivers or extensions? Possible Solutions Mac Users: Open Apple System Profiler and click...

Troubleshooting page 22 LaCie Slim Combo CD-RW Drive User’s Manual The Issue The drive's media traywill not open. The drive automaticallyejects a CD when youtry to record on it, orthe drive is not writingto CD correctly. Questions to Ask Are you using a Mac? Has a running software programlocked the ...

Troubleshooting page 23 LaCie Slim Combo CD-RW Drive User’s Manual The Issue DVD-Video playbackwill not work. DVD-Video playbackwill not work underWindows. DVD playback is not assmooth as it should be. Questions to Ask Are you using a Mac? Have you installed the appropriateMPEG-II decoder software? ...

Troubleshooting page 24 LaCie Slim Combo CD-RW Drive User’s Manual Questions to Ask Is the drive connected to a USB 1.1port on your computer, or to a USB1.1 hub? Is the drive connected to a USB 2.0port on your computer? Does your computer or operatingsystem support USB 2.0? Possible Solutions If so,...

6. Contacting Customer Support Before You Contact Technical Support 1) Read the manuals and review the Troubleshooting section. 2) Try to isolate the problem. If possible, make the drive the only external device on the CPU, and make sure that all of thecables are correctly and firmly attached. If yo...

LaCie Technical Support Contacting Customer Support page 26 LaCie Slim Combo CD-RW Drive User’s Manual LaCie Australia Contact Us At:http://www.lacie.com/au/contact/ LaCie Denmark Contact Us At:http://www.lacie.com/dk/contact/ LaCie Germany Contact Us At:http://www.lacie.com/de/contact/ LaCie Nether...

7. Warranty LaCie warrants your drive against any defect in material and workmanship, under normal use, for the period designated onyour warranty certificate. In the event this product is found to be defective within the warranty period, LaCie will, at its option,repair or replace the defective driv...