Teac CD-W524E User Manual

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CD-W524E CD-RW Drive

User's manual

To ensure the smooth handling of y our w arranty please write the serial number of
your drive into the box. In the case of w arranty you are e xpected to send it together
with a copy of your invoice to your nearest TEAC sales representative.

• Changes in specifications and features may be made with-

out notice or obligation.

• Copyright © 2001, TEAC Corporation Ltd. All rights reserved.

First edition: September 2001

• Company and product names provided herein are trade-

marks of their respective companies.

CONTENTS

TO THE USER ................................................................................ 28

SAFETY CONSIDERA TIONS RELA TING T O THE

FCC RULE PART 15....................................................................... 29

SAFETY CONSIDERATIONS RELATED TO LASER PRODUCTS 30

1. COMPONENTS .......................................................................... 32

2. SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS........................................................ 33

3. PRECAUTIONS FOR INSTALLATION AND OPERATION.......... 34

4. CONTROLS AND FUNCTIONS.................................................. 36

4.1 Front Panel ........................................................................... 36

4.2 Rear panel............................................................................ 38

5. CONNECTION TO A PERSONAL COMPUTER......................... 41

5.1 Drive Installation Directions ................................................. 41

5.2 Installation/Connection to Your Personal Computer............. 41

6. CONNECTION TO AUDIO EQUIPMENT.................................... 42

7. INSTALLING DRIVERS AND THE WRITER SOFTWARE .......... 43

7.1 Installing Drivers with Windo ws 95/98/ME/2000.................. 43

7.2 Installing Drivers with Windows NT 4.0 and OS/2................ 43

7.3 Compatibility or Interoperability to Other IDE Devices......... 44

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8. TECHNICAL SUPPOR T.............................................................. 44

8.1 Product Warranty ................................................................. 44

8.2 Technical Service Depots (Europe)...................................... 44

9. SPECIFICATIONS....................................................................... 46

WARRANTY ................................................................................... 47

Contents

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TO THE USER

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 protection against interfer­ence in a residential area. This device generates and uses radio fre-

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quency energy and if not installed and used in accordance with the
instructions, it may cause interference to radio or TV reception. If this
unit does cause interference with TV or r adio reception, you can try to
correct the interference by one or more of the following measures:

(a) Reorient or relocate the receiving antenna.
(b) Increase the separation between the equipment and the receiver.
(c) Plug the equipment into a different outlet so that it is not on the

(d) Consult the dealer or an experienced radio/TV technician for help .

CAUTION

Changes or modifications to this equipment not expressly approv ed by
TEAC CORPORATION for compliance could void the user’s authority
to operate this equipment.

To ensure that the use of this product does not contribute to interfer­ence, it is necessary to use shielded I/O cables.

same circuit as the receiver.

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To the User

SAFETY CONSIDERATIONS RELATING TO THE FCC RULE PART 15

Declaration of Conformity

Model Number: CD-W524E
Trade Name: TEAC
Responsible party: TEAC AMERICA, INC .
Address : 7733 Telegraph Road, Montebello,

California, U. S .A.

Telephone Number: 1-213-726-0303
This device complies with Part 15 of the FCC Rules.
Operation is subject to the follo wing tw o conditions:

(1) This device may not cause harmful interference,

and

(2) this device must accept an y interference receiv ed, including inter-

ference that may cause undesired operation.

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Safety Considerations Relating to the FCC Rule Part 15

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SAFETY CONSIDERATIONS RELATED TO LASER PRODUCTS

This product has been designed and manufactured according to FDA
regulations „title 21, CFR, chapter1, subchapter J . based on the radia-

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tion Control for Health and Safety Act of 1968", and is classified as a
class 1 laser product. There is no hazardous invisible laser radiation
during operation because invisible laser radiation emitted inside of this
product is completely confined in the protective housings.

CAUTION

Use of controls or adjustments or performance of procedures other
than those specified herein may result in hazardous radiation expo­sure.

Important:

If the protective hausing of the device listed above is opened without
the consideration of the appropriate processing, serious injuries may
result caused by the effect of the laser beam.

Optical pickup

Type: SF-WO3YTCX
Manufacturer: SANYO Electric CO., LTD
Laser output: Less than 2.0mW (Play) and 37mW (Record) on the

Wavelength: 780nm - 786nm

objective lens

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Safety Considerations Related to Laser Products

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Label with safety remarks on your device

Safety Considerations Related to Laser Products

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1. COMPONENTS

With a reading speed factor of appro x. 40 the CD-W524E is a modern
high performance CD-RW drive system. It is able to write to CD-R media
with a writing speed of 4X, 8X, 12X, and 16X (and Z-CL V 16-20-24) and
it is able to write to CD-RW media with a writing speed of 4X and 10X

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The drive is shipped with the following components . Open the packing
box and confirm that none of the parts are missing.

➀ CD-W524E CD-RW Drive ➆ Mounting screws (M3x5)

➂ Interface cable ➃ Audio cab le

.

➄ User’s manual (CD) ➅ CD-W524E W arranty card

(printed on last page)

For any other accessories please ref er to the printed notes on the pack­aging.

Hint:

The kit version can be identified if the product name ends with the
letter "K".

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1. Components

2. SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

Your TEAC CD-RW dr ive supports all major operating systems (with
the exception of MS-DOS and Windows 3.1x) and all major hardware
platforms. To get the full performance it is recommended to use a sys­tem environment whichs computing power is equiv alent to an IBM com­patible PC with a P entium II CPU with 300MHz clock frequency or more,
64MByte RAM or more and a fixed disk with an access time of 12ms or
less.

Important:

1. To use the TEAC CD-RW drive, an IDE (ATAPI) controller is
required. The necessary drivers are shipped with the corre­sponding controller card or they are available from the manu­facturer of the controller.

2. Please do not install your TEAC CD-RW drive near sources of
radiating heat like hard disks.

Selecting the CD-R/CD-RW media for your TEAC CD-RW drive

The best results and the highest performance are ensured by using
TEAC CD-R/CD-RW media. Your dealer will tell you the sources of the
respective CD-Rs and CD-RWs.

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2. System requirements

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