Page 2 - Table of Contents; Foreword; Installing Your LaCie Drive
Table of Contents LaCie d2 DL DVD±RW Drive – Toast 7 Titanium User’s Manual Table of Contents Foreword 4 Precautions 6 1. Introduction 8 1.1. What Your LaCie Drive Can Do 8 2. Your LaCie Drive 9 2.1. Minimum System Requirements 9 2.2. Package Contents 10 2.3. Views Of The Drive 11 2.4. Cables And Co...
Page 3 - Contacting Customer Support
Table of Contents LaCie d2 DL DVD±RW Drive – Toast 7 Titanium User’s Manual 5. Tech Tips 24 5.1. DVD & CD Media – Definitions 24 5.2. File System Formats – Definitions 25 5.3. DVD Capacity 25 5.4. DVD-Video Regional Playback Zones 26 5.5. Optimizing Data Transfers 27 6. FireWire Questions & ...
Page 4 - Copyrights; F O R H O M E O R O F F I C E U S E; LaCie d2 DL DVD±RW Drive
Foreword page 4 LaCie d2 DL DVD±RW Drive – Toast 7 Titanium User’s Manual Copyrights Copyright © 2005 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...
Page 5 - Canada Compliance Statement
Foreword page 5 LaCie d2 DL DVD±RW Drive – Toast 7 Titanium User’s Manual Canada Compliance Statement This Class A digital apparatus meets all requirements of the Canadian Interference-Causing Equipment Regulations. Manufacturer’s Declaration for CE Certification We hereby certify that this device i...
Page 6 - Health, Safety and General Use Precautions; Health and Safety Precautions:
Precautions page 6 LaCie d2 DL DVD±RW Drive – Toast 7 Titanium User’s Manual 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 oper...
Page 7 - General Use Precautions:
Precautions page 7 LaCie d2 DL DVD±RW Drive – Toast 7 Titanium User’s Manual General Use Precautions: • Do not expose the drive to temperatures outside the range of 5° C to 40° C (41° F to 104° F) during operation. Doing somay damage the drive or disfigure its casing. Avoid placing your drive near a...
Page 8 - Supported DVD and CD Logos
1. Introduction page 8 LaCie d2 DL DVD±RW Drive – Toast 7 Titanium User’s Manual 1. Introduction Congratulations on the purchase of your new LaCie d2 DL DVD±RW Drive – your complete DVD and CD creation solution!This drive gives you maximum compatibility with the various DVD and CD formats, reading a...
Page 9 - Mac Users; Hardware Requirements –; Computer equipped with a FireWire interface card.; Additional Requirements for DVD playback and Pre-Mastering –
2. Your LaCie Drive page 9 LaCie d2 DL DVD±RW Drive – Toast 7 Titanium User’s Manual 2. Your LaCie Drive 2.1. Minimum System Requirements Mac Users Hardware Requirements – Computer equipped with a FireWire interface card. System Requirements –Single/Double Layer Recording • 4.7GB or 8.5GB Single/Dou...
Page 11 - Front View –; – Media Tray –; Push this button to open the disc tray.; – Disc LED –
2. Your LaCie Drive page 11 LaCie d2 DL DVD±RW Drive – Toast 7 Titanium User’s Manual 2.3. Views Of The Drive Front View – 1 – On/Off Button / Power LED – The Power LED automatically lights up after the power supply has been connected and the drive has been attached to thecomputer via either the Fir...
Page 12 - Rear View –; – Ventilation Outlet
2. Your LaCie Drive page 12 LaCie d2 DL DVD±RW Drive – Toast 7 Titanium User’s Manual Rear View – 1 – Ventilation Outlet – These holes help to keep your drive cool during operation. Be sure not to block these openings when using your drive. 2 – FireWire 400 Port – This is where you plug in the FireW...
Page 13 - FireWire; FireWire Cables; LaCie d2 DL DVD±RW Drive – Toast 7 Titanium; Connects FireWire 400 devices to FireWire 400 ports.; DV icon
2.4. Cables And Connectors FireWire FireWire is Apple's implementation of IEEE 1394, and is capable of transferring largeamounts of data between computers and peripherals at a high rate of speed. TheFireWire standard defines 100, 200 and 400Mb/s devices and can support multiplespeeds on a single bus...
Page 15 - front of the Toast 7 Titanium CD-ROM sleeve.
3. Installing Your LaCie Drive page 15 LaCie d2 DL DVD±RW Drive – Toast 7 Titanium User’s Manual 3.1. Installing The Recording Software Insert your LaCie Toast CD-ROM into your internal DVD/CD-ROM, and follow the instructions below that are based on eachparticular operating system. For more informat...
Page 17 - For more information about connecting
3. Installing Your LaCie Drive page 17 LaCie d2 DL DVD±RW Drive – Toast 7 Titanium User’s Manual 3.3. Connecting The Interface Cable Tech Note: For more information about connecting additional FireWire devices to the LaCie d2 DL DVD±RWDrive, please see section 3.4. Installing Multiple Devices. Conne...
Page 18 - Trash
3. Installing Your LaCie Drive page 18 LaCie d2 DL DVD±RW Drive – Toast 7 Titanium User’s Manual 3.4. Connecting Multiple Devices FireWire The FireWire interface standard allows for the connection of up to 63 devices on the bus (called daisy-chaining), with amaximum of 16 devices on one branch. Fire...
Page 19 - Using Your LaCie Drive; Check LaCie’s Web site (
4. Using Your LaCie Drive page 19 LaCie d2 DL DVD±RW Drive – Toast 7 Titanium User’s Manual 4. Using Your LaCie Drive 4.1. Supported DVD/CD Formats Your LaCie drive is compatible with most popular DVD and CD formats: Format Type of Disc Record Read DVD DVD+R9 DL X X DVD+R9 X X DVD+RW X X DVD-R 4.7GB...
Page 20 - Media Tray
4. Using Your LaCie Drive page 20 LaCie d2 DL DVD±RW Drive – Toast 7 Titanium User’s Manual 4.2. Inserting Discs To insert a disc push the Open/Close (#2) button on your LaCie d2 DL DVD±RW Drive. When the disc tray opens, put theDVD or CD media into the tray with the label side facing up. Make sure ...
Page 21 - LaCie d2 DL DVD±RW drive in write mode.
4. Using Your LaCie Drive page 21 LaCie d2 DL DVD±RW Drive – Toast 7 Titanium User’s Manual 4.4. Writing Discs The following is a brief overview of some of the recording terminology to help you understand how to use your drive to writediscs. Important Note: Please refer to your recording software’s ...
Page 23 - Drag the DVD/CD icon on the desktop to the; the disc tray or push the Open/Close button to close it.
4. Using Your LaCie Drive page 23 LaCie d2 DL DVD±RW Drive – Toast 7 Titanium User’s Manual 4.5. Ejecting Discs Caution! Do not attempt to open the drive's disc tray or remove the DVD or CD while the unit is in use and being accessed by the computer. You may injure yourself, and damage the drive and...
Page 25 - UDF –
5. Tech Tips page 25 LaCie d2 DL DVD±RW Drive – Toast 7 Titanium User’s Manual 5.2. File System Formats - Definitions When writing DVD-R DL, DVD+R DL, DVD±R/RW and CD-R/RW discs, you will have the option to assign the disc aparticular file format (the way in which a computer names and organizes file...
Page 28 - What Is The Relationship Between IEEE 1394, FireWire, iLink And DV?
6. FireWire Questions & Answers page 28 LaCie d2 DL DVD±RW Drive – Toast 7 Titanium User’s Manual 6. FireWire Questions & Answers What Does IEEE 1394 Mean? IEEE (the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) refers to the engineering corps that developed the 1394th standard,defining...
Page 29 - What Are The Ideal Uses For FireWire?; For more information about the FireWire interface, please visit:
6. FireWire Questions & Answers page 29 LaCie d2 DL DVD±RW Drive – Toast 7 Titanium User’s Manual What Are The Ideal Uses For FireWire? FireWire helped fuel a revolution for digital content creators, and was awarded a 2001 Primetime Emmy Engineering Awardby the Academy of Television Arts & S...
Page 30 - Manual Updates
7. Troubleshooting In the event that your LaCie d2 DL DVD±RW Drive is not working correctly, please refer to the following checklist to find outwhere the problem is coming from. If you have gone through all of the points on the checklist and your drive is still not work-ing correctly, please have a ...
Page 31 - The Problem; Apple; and click on the; Devices and Volumes; Mac Users
7. Troubleshooting page 31 LaCie d2 DL DVD±RW Drive – Toast 7 Titanium User’s Manual The Problem The drive is notrecognized by thecomputer. Questions to Ask Does your computer’sconfiguration meet the minimumsystem requirements for use withthis drive? Is the drive’s power supplyconnected and turned o...
Page 33 - Questions to Ask
7. Troubleshooting page 33 LaCie d2 DL DVD±RW Drive – Toast 7 Titanium User’s Manual Questions to Ask Is the LaCie d2 DL DVD±RWDrive connected directly to thehost computer? Do you have a DVD-ROM,Combo or SuperDrive installedin your computer. Have you tried dragging thedisc’s icon to the Trash? Has a...
Page 34 - Is the disc already full?; Possible Solutions; File Sharing
7. Troubleshooting page 34 LaCie d2 DL DVD±RW Drive – Toast 7 Titanium User’s Manual The Problem The drive’s media trayautomatically ejects a discwhen you try to recordon it, or the drive is notwriting to CD/DVDcorrectly. Questions to Ask Is the disc already full? Does the drive support theformat of...
Page 35 - Before You Contact Technical Support; ) Read the manuals and review the Troubleshooting section.
8. Contacting Customer Support page 35 LaCie d2 DL DVD±RW Drive – Toast 7 Titanium User’s Manual 8. 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 externa...
Page 36 - LaCie Technical Support
8. Contacting Customer Support page 36 LaCie d2 DL DVD±RW Drive – Toast 7 Titanium User’s Manual LaCie Technical Support LaCie Asia, Singapore and Hong Kong Contact Us At:http://www.lacie.com/asia/contact LaCie Belgium Contact Us At:http://www.lacie.com/be/contact/ LaCie Denmark Contact Us At:http:/...
Page 37 - Register online for free technical support:
9. Warranty page 37 LaCie d2 DL DVD±RW Drive – Toast 7 Titanium User’s Manual 9. 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 w...
Page 38 - Glossary; to the receiving item as it is needed.
Glossary page 38 LaCie d2 DL DVD±RW Drive – Toast 7 Titanium User’s Manual Glossary Asynchronous – Data transfer method where the data is transferred independently of other processes. With this transfer method, the intervals between transmissions can vary, and data can be resent if it is initially m...
Page 39 - Discrete information that can be broken down to zero or one bits.
Glossary page 39 LaCie d2 DL DVD±RW Drive – Toast 7 Titanium User’s Manual Digital – Discrete information that can be broken down to zero or one bits. Driver (peripheral manager) – A software component that enables the computer system to communicate with a peripheral. Most peripherals will not opera...
Page 40 - Kilobytes per second. A means of measuring throughput.; Media –; compatible peripheral.
Glossary page 40 LaCie d2 DL DVD±RW Drive – Toast 7 Titanium User’s Manual Kb (Kilobit) – Equivalent to 1,000 bits. Kb/s – Kilobits per second. 480Kb/s is equal to 60KB/s. KB (KiloByte) – Basically, this means 1,000 bytes, but it is actually 1,024 bytes. KB/s – Kilobytes per second. A means of measu...
Page 41 - byte or block basis for optimum application performance.
Glossary page 41 LaCie d2 DL DVD±RW Drive – Toast 7 Titanium User’s Manual Seek Time – The amount of time (in thousandths of a second, or milliseconds) that it takes a hard drive’s read/write head to move to a specific location on the disk. Average seek, then, is the average of a large number of ran...
