Page 2 - Foreword; Unpacking Your LaCie Drive; Install the Recording Software; Using Your LaCie Drive; Table of Contents
Table of Contents Foreword 2 Precautions 4 1. Unpacking Your LaCie Drive 6 1.1. Minimum System Requirements 6 1.1.1. Hardware Requirements 6 1.1.2. System Requirements 6 1.1.3 Additional Requirements for DVD-Playback and Pre-Mastering 6 2. Getting Connected 7 2.1 Install the Recording Software 8 2.2...
Page 3 - F O R H O M E O R O F F I C E U S E
Copyrights Copyright © 2003 LaCie. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, ortransmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the priorwritten consent of LaCie. Trademarks Apple, M...
Page 5 - Health, Safety and General Use Precautions; Health and Safety Precautions:; Precautions
Health, Safety and General Use Precautions The drive you have just purchased includes a laser diode device, which classifies it as a "Laser Class I" product. This laser isnot dangerous for the user under normal operating conditions. However, we strongly advise you not to place any reflective...
Page 6 - General Use Precautions:; Troubleshooting
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...
Page 7 - Advice for Optimizing USB 2.0 Connections; Unpacking Your LaCie Drive
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...
Page 8 - Getting Connected
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...
Page 9 - Windows 98 SE and Windows Me Users!; icon. The LaCie USB2 Storage Driver screen will appear. Click; Connect the power supply and switch on the drive.; Windows Users
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...
Page 10 - computer, it must be plugged into a powered USB port.; Power Supply -Option A
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...
Page 11 - Connect the USB 2.0 cable to your LaCie Drive and to your computer.; Please refer to section
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 (...
Page 12 - Your LaCie drive is compatible with most popular CD formats:; Format; CD; Using Your LaCie Drive
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.•...
Page 14 - My Computer; option. The disc tray will open, then you can access your media.; Trash; tray or push the load/eject button to close it.
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...
Page 15 - Mac Users; Desktop
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...
Page 17 - USB Cables and Connectors; Helpful Information
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...
Page 18 - System Tray; icon; Eject
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...
Page 20 - disc only on Macs, this is the preferred file format.
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...
Page 21 - The Issue; Is the drive’s power on?; Possible Solutions; Check for an icon on the Desktop (on a Mac) or in; My; Make sure that all the steps in section
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...
Page 22 - Contacting Customer
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...
Page 23 - Ejection of Discs; Supported CD Formats
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 ...
Page 24 - Requirements
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? ...
Page 25 - Questions to Ask; See the
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,...
Page 26 - Before You Contact Technical Support; ) Read the manuals and review the; Contacting Customer Support; Serial Number Sticker
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...
Page 27 - LaCie Technical Support
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...
Page 28 - Warranty
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...
