Creative 4X CD-ROM Drives GCD-R542B User Manual

CD ROM Upgrade

4X CD-ROM Drives

User Guide

On-line Version

CD-ROM UPGRADE

Creative GCD-R542B CD-ROM Drive

User’s Guide

Information in th is doc um ent is subject to change withou t notice and does not represent a
commitment on the part of Creative Technology Ltd. The software described in this document
is furnished under a license agreement and may be used or copied only in accordance with the
terms of the license agr eement. It is against the law to copy the software on any other medium
except as specifically allowed in the license agreement.
The licensee may ma ke one copy of the software for backup purposes. No part of this manual
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Copyright 1995 by Creative Technology Ltd . All rig hts reserved.

Version 1.0
August 1995

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Sound Blaster 16 is a trade mark of Creative Technology Ltd.
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MS-DOS is a registe red trademark and Windows is a trademark of Microsoft Corporation.
All other products are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.

Regulatory Information

The following sec tions consist the noti ce for the USA and Canada.

Notice for the USA

FCC Part 15: This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class B
digital device, pursuant to Part 15 of the FCC Rules. These limits are designed to provide
reasonable protect ion against harmful inte r f erence in a res idential installation. This equipm ent
generates, uses, and c an radi ate radio frequency energy and , i f not inst alled and used in
accordance with the instruction s , may cause ha rmful interf erence to radio communications.
However, there is no guarantee that interference will not occur in a particular installation. If this
equipment does c ause harmful interference to rad io or television reception, whic h ca n be
determined by turning the equipment off and on, the user is encouraged to try one or more of the
following measure s:

Reorient or relocate the receiving antenna.

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Increase the separation bet w een the equipment and receiver.

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Connect the equi pment into an outlet on a circuit different from tha t to which the

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receiver is connected.
Consult the dealer or an experienced radio/TV technician for help.

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Caution

To comply with the limits for the Class B digital device, pursuant to
Part 15 o f the FCC Rules , this device must be installed in computer equip ment certif ied to
comply with the Class B limits.

All cables used to connect the computer and peripherals must be shielded and grounded.
Operation with non-certified computers or non-shielded cables may result in interference to radio
or television reception.

Modifications

Any changes or modifications not expressly app rove d by the grantee of this devic e co uld void
the user’s authority to operate the device.

Notice for Canada

This apparatus complies with the Class “B” limits for radio interference as specified in the
Canadian Department of Communications Radi o Interference Regulation s.

Cet appareil est conforme aux normes de CLASSE “B” d’interference radio tel que spe’cifie’ par
le Ministère Canadi en des Communications dans les règle ments d’interfe’rence radio.

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Safety Information

CAUTION: This CD-ROM is intended to be installed by the user in a CSA/TUV/UL
certifie d/listed IBM A T or compatible personal computers in the manufac turer’ s defined operator
access area. Ch eck the equipment op erating/ins tallation manual an d/or with the equipment
manufacturer to verify/confirm if your equipment is suitable for user-installed application cards.

ATTENTION: Cette CD-ROM est destinée à être instal lé e par l ’utilisateur, dans un ordinateur
compatible certifié CSA/TUV/UL ou listé IBM AT, à l’intérieur de la zone définie par le
fabricant. Consulter le mode d’emploi ou le fabricant de l’appareil pour vérifier ou confirmer si
l’utilis ateur peut y in s taller lui- même des carte s périphériques.

Compliance

This product is in conforminty to the following Council Directive:

Directive 89/336/ EEC, 92/31/EEC (EMC)

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Introduction

This User’s Guide provides you with information to install and operate
your CD-ROM drive. It also provides you with information to install
and use QuickCD, an application that allows you to play au dio CDs in
DOS and Windows.

Before Y ou B egin

Before you set up your package, please read the following carefully:

❑ Checking System Requirements
❑ Obtaining Latest Information
❑ Making a Copy of Your Diskette

Checking System Requirements

The following are the system requirements:

❑ A 386SX or compatible computer (486SX recommended).
❑ 720 Kilobytes (KB) of hard disk space for the software.
❑ MS-DOS version 5.0 or later.
❑ Windows 3.1 or later.
❑ An audio card with IDE CD-ROM in terface, an IDE CD-ROM

interface card, or any device with an IDE interface.

Obtaining Latest Information

The README.TXT file on the diskette labeled CD-ROM Installation
Disk contains the latest information and changes not available at the
time of printing. Please read the file before you continue.

To view the file:

1. Insert the CD-ROM Installation Disk into drive A or B of your
computer.

2. Type A:README (or B:README) and press <Enter>.

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Making a Copy of Your Diskettes

If you have not made a copy of the origi nal diskettes, you shou ld do so
before installing the software in your system. Store your original
diskettes in a safe place.

Using this Guide

This guide is arranged as follows:
Chapter 1, “Knowing Your CD-ROM Drive”

Before you install your drive, you should read this chapter to become
more familiar with your drive. This chapter acquaints you with the
various components and features of your CD-ROM drive. This
chapter is especially helpful if you are new to CD-ROM drives.

Chapter 2, “Setting Up Your CD-ROM Drive”
After you have acquired a general understanding of your CD-ROM
drive, you will be able to set up your CD-ROM drive easily and
quickly. This chapter shows you how to install the drive and run the
test program to ensure that your installation is successful.

Chapter 3, “Using QuickCD”
When you install your CD-ROM drive, the installation progr am copies
QuickCD to your syste m. QuickCD is a program that plays audio CDs
in DOS or Windows. Thi s ch apte r des cri bes h ow to run this pr ogram
in both environments.

Chapter 4, “Doing More with Your CD-ROM Drive”
This chapter comprises several sections to help you get more out of
your CD-ROM drive. These sections provide you with additional
information about your drive e.g., changing the parameters of your
CD-ROM drivers, and connecting additional drives.

Appendix A, “Technical Data”
If you want to know mor e about the physical dimension s, performance
characteristics, and other specifications of your CD-ROM drive, you
can refer to this appendix.

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Appendix B, “Resolving Hardware Conflicts”
The base I/O address or IRQ line of the IDE CD-ROM inter face card
might conflict wi th the I/O address or IRQ line of other devices. Read
this appendix on how to resolve these conflicts by changing your
card’s jumpers.

Appendix C, “Troubleshooting”
If you encounter pr oblems during ins tallation or normal us e, you need
to know how to resolve them. This appendix provides solutions for
some of the problems you might encounter.

Appendix D, “Glossary”
This appendix explains the technical terms used in this guide.

Appendix E, “Technical Support”
If you still cannot resolve a problem after looking at Appendix C, you
can call our Technical Support service. This appendix provides
information on where you can get help.

Document Conventions

This guide follows certain conventions to help you locate and identify
the information that you need. Thes e conventions are described in the
following sections:

❑ Text Conventions
❑ Key Combinations
❑ Icons

Please note that in this guide, installed directory or path refers to the
directory where your CD-ROM’s software is stored (e.g., SBCD).

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Text Conventions

The following text elements are used to help you distinguish d iffer ent
types of information presented in this guide:

Table i:Text conv entions u sed in th is guide.

Text Element Use

bold

italics

UPPERCASE Directory name, file name, or acronym.
<> Symbols, letters , and key names o n the keyboard.

Key Combinations

In this guide, the following conventions are used to help you identify
different key stroke combinations:

Table ii:Key conventions used in this guide.

Command names, switches, and any text that
must be entered exactly as it appears.

Title of a book. When presented at the DOS
command line, it is a placeholder that represents
information you must provide. This information
usually appears in the parameter listing after the
command is presented.

Combination Use

<Key1+Key2> A plus sign (+) between key names means you

<Key1,Key2> A comma sign (, ) between key names means you

must press the keys at the same time. For
example, “Press <Ctrl+Z>” means press the
<Ctrl> key and hold it down while you press the
<Z> key.

must press the keys in sequence. For example,
“Press <Alt,F>” means press the <Alt> key an d
release it, and then press the <F> key and release
it.

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Icons

In this guide, icons are used to highlight areas of text that require your
attention.

Table iii:Icons used in this guide.

Icon Use

Information or inst ructions that must not be taken
lightly a nd should be noted.

Cautions or warn ings that you must pay atten tion
to. Information highlighted by this icon tells you
how to avoid situations such as the risk of not
enough memory or even damag es to your system.

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Knowing Your CD-ROM Drive

Your CD-ROM drive is just like a CD player. It allows you to play
audio CDs, skip and stop a track, and eject the CD using software
application (see Chapter 3, “Using QuickCD”).

Furthermore, your drive supports the following features:

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Quad Speed Transfer
Your drive can supply a continuous stream of information at
600 KB per second to the PC’s bus. This higher transfer rate
produces better performance when viewing Video for
Windows or QuickTime m ovies and multimedia applications.

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CD-ROM Standards
Your drive meets the MPC level 2 requirements for CD-ROM.
It also enables you to read CD-ROM/XA (Extended
Architecture) — a specification that allows you to interleave
data, au dio, and video sectors on a CD.

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Motorized Tray Loading System
Your drive comes with a motorized tray loading system which
allows you to load your CDs like a CD player.

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Multiple Drives Support
You can connect more than one CD-ROM drive to your PC.
For more information on connecting additional drives, refer to
the section “Connecting Additional Drives” in Chapter 4.

The rest of this chapter describes the components of yo ur drive’ s front
and rear panels.

Knowin g Your CD-ROM Drive 1-1

The Drive’ s Front Panel

This section describes the vario us controls on y our drive’s front panel
as shown in Figure 1-1.

Figure 1-1: The front panel of your CD-ROM drive.

Stereo Phone Jack

The Stereo Phone Jack allows you to connect a pair of earphone s to the
drive. It also allows you to connect a pair of powered speakers. If you
are connecting a pair of speakers to your drive, make sure that you
switch on the speakers.

Volume Control

The Volume Control allows you to adjust the volume of your
earphones or powered speakers connected to the front panel Stereo
Phone Jack. This control has no effect on the audio output from
devices (such as speakers) connected to your audio card.

Busy Indicator

The Busy Indicator lights up whenever yo ur drive is reading data from
your disc.

Knowing Your CD-ROM Drive 1-2

Play/Skip Button

The Play/Skip button allows you to play audio CDs when the
CD-ROM drive is connected to your system’s power supply. If your
disc tray is ejected and loaded with a audio CD, pressing this button
closes the tray and plays the audio CD.

While your audio CD is playing, you can press this button to skip a
track. If you play a disc that does not contain any audio data, you will
not hear any sound and the Busy Indicator blinks momentarily to
signal the error.

You can operate your CD-ROM drive using controls on the
drive’ s front panel or us ing applications such as QuickCD (see
Chapter 3). If you are using the co ntrols on the fr ont panel, you
cannot use QuickCD. Similarly, if you use QuickCD, you
cannot use the controls.

Eject Hole

The Eject Hole allows you to eject the disc tray if the Eject/Stop button
is disabled by a software or if power failure occurs. Refer to “Disc
Tray” for more information on how to do so.

Stop/Eject Button

The Stop/Eject button stops playing a CD. It also allows you to eject
or close the disc tray when the drive is not playing CD.

The Stop/Eject button will not eject the disc tray if the tray is
locked by software application. To eject the disc tray, q uit the
application before you press the button.

Disc Tray

The disc tray is where you place your CD-ROM or audio CD. To
eject button the tray, press the Stop/Eject button on your drive.

Knowin g Your CD-ROM Drive 1-3

When placing the disc onto the tray, hold the disc by the inner and
outer edges with the disc label facing up as shown in Figure 1-2.

Figure 1-2: Holding a disc.

The disc tray can be locked using the LOCKCD.EXE utility
(see the section “Locking the Disc Tray” in Chapter 4).

When there is a power or system failure, you can eject the disc tr ay by
inserting a straightened paper clip into the Eject Hole and push hard
(see Figure 1-3). Pull the ejected tray out gently as shown in
Figure 1-4.

Figure 1-3: Inserting the straightened pa per clip to eject the tray.

Knowing Your CD-ROM Drive 1-4

Please refrain from using excessive force to open the tray as
this may damage your drive

Figure 1-4: Pulling out the tray.

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The Drive’ s Rear Panel

This section provides you with information on the connectors and
jumpers found on your drive’s back panel as shown in Figure 1-5.

Figure 1-5: The rear panel of your CD-ROM driv e.

Digital Output Connector

The Digital Output Connector allows your CD-RO M drive to provid e
digital output for recording to a digital audio tape (DAT) or
professional a udio recording system.

Knowin g Your CD-ROM Drive 1-5

CD Audio Connector

The CD Audio Connector al lows you to direct audio output from y our
CD-ROM drive to your audio card when it is connected using a CD
audio cable.

Master/Slave Jumper

The Master/Slave Jumper (see Figure 1-6) allows you to set your drive
as the Master or Slave drive. When you connect more than one drive,
you must set your drive to be either a Master or Slave drive (see the
section “Connecting Additional Drives” in Chapter 4). The jumper
labeled CS is reserved and should not be used.

Figure 1-6: Master/Slave Jumper.

IDE CD-ROM Data Connector

The IDE CD-ROM Data Connector allows data transfer b etween your
CD-ROM drive and various devices when connected using a data
cable. These devices include y our audio card (with an IDE interf ace),
IDE CD-ROM interface card, and hard disk controller card.

Power-in Connector

The Power-in Connector allows electrical power to be directed from
your PC to the drive when connected using a power cable.

Knowing Your CD-ROM Drive 1-6

Setting Up Your CD-ROM Drive

This chapter provides you with instructions to set up your CD-ROM
drive. These instructions work:

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If you have purchased your CD-ROM drive as a stand-alone
product or in a multimedia upgrade kit.

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If you have purchased your CD-ROM drive with a CD-ROM
interface card.

If you are new to CD-ROM drives, we recommend that you
read Chapter 1 before attempting to set up your drive.

Besides the CD-ROM drive, get the following items ready before
setting up your drive (see Figure 2-1):

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W e recommend you to use a Philip Number One screwdriver as
it is applicable to most systems. To av oid any damage to your
drive, fasten the drive to your system using the screws
(M3x5mm) provided.

Figure 2-1: Items required for setting up your CD-ROM drive.

Setting Up Your CD-ROM Drive 2-1

If you have purchased th e drive with an IDE CD -ROM interface card,
get the interface card ready (see Figure 2-2).

Figure 2-2: IDE CD-ROM interface card.

If you have an audio card installed in your system, get a CD audio
cable ready (see Figure 2-3).

The rest of this chapter shows you how to:

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Install Your CD-ROM Drive

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Install the Software

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Test Your Installation

Installing Y our Drive

To install your CD-ROM drive, you need to do the following:

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Insert Your Drive into Your System

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Connect Cables to Yo ur Drive’s Rear Panel

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Connect Cables to Your Card

Figure 2-3: CD audio cable.

Setting Up Your CD-ROM Drive 2-2

Inserting Your Drive into Your System

To insert your drive into your system:

1. Switch off your system and all peripheral devices.

2. Touch a metal plate on your system to ground yourself and
discharge any static electricity.

3. Remove the cover from your system as illustrated in
Figure 2-4.
If your computer differs from the one shown below, refer to
your computer’s manual for more details.

Figure 2-4: Removing the computer cover of your system.

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4. Locate a 5¼" drive bay for your CD-ROM drive.

5. Vacate a drive bay.
If a disk drive is positioned above your vacant drive bay, loosen
the screws of your disk drive and slide it out by two to three
inches. See Figure 2-5.

Figure 2-5: Vacating a dri ve bay.

For more information on how to vacate a drive bay , refer
to your computer system’s manual for assistance. If
you require further help, please consult a technician.

Setting Up Your CD-ROM Drive 2-4

6. Insert your CD-ROM driv e into the v acant drive b ay as sho wn

in Figure 2-6.

Do not slide the drive completely into the vacant drive
bay . Leave some space at the rear so that it is easier for
you to connect cables to your drive.

Figure 2-6: Inserting your CD-ROM drive.

You may need to use some force to insert your
CD-ROM drive into your drive bay. However, please
refrain from excessive force as this may damage your
drive or other devices on your system.

Connecting Cables to Your Drive’s Rear Panel

T o connect all the necessar y cables to the rear panel of your CD-ROM
drive:

1. Locate an unused power cable from your system.

A power cable can be lo cated from your system’ s power supply
unit. The power supply unit is located at the right hand corner
on most systems.

Setting Up Your CD-ROM Drive 2-5

2. Connect the power cable to the CD-ROM drive as shown in
Figure 2-7.

Figure 2-7: Connecting po we r cable to your CD-ROM drive.

3. Connect the data cable to the CD-ROM drive as shown in
Figure 2-8. Make sure you align the col ored wire on the cable
to Pin 1 of the IDE CD-ROM Data Connector.
If you are connecting your drive to your hard disk controller
card, make sure that you use the data cable pro vided with your
package to connect your drive (see Figure 2-1 on page 2-1).

Figure 2-8: Connecting data cabl e to your CD-ROM drive.

Setting Up Your CD-ROM Drive 2-6