Tascam CD-R624M quick start Troubleshooting, Underruns, Other problems

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Troubleshooting

Underruns

Let’s start with a basic understanding of what’s involved. Here are some basic terms you will need to understand to navigate the world of data transfer:

Access Time - How long does it take from the time the computer asks a drive for data until the drive starts spitting it out? This is usually measured in ms (milliseconds).

Throughput (aka Transfer Rate) - Once the drive finds the information, how fast can it transmit the data? This is usually measured in MB/sec (megabytes per second).

Fragmented or Optimized - Is the information on the drive written in one continuous data stream, or is it broken up into several pieces around the drive? If the data is in one continuous stream, it is optimized. If it is broken up, it is fragmented.

Once you understand the previous terms, then we’re ready to troubleshoot! Let’s first understand the relationship between all of these.

Think of a disk drive as a book. If you are reading a book from page one to the end, you can read a certain number of words per minute. When you read a newspaper, and the story on page B1 is continued on page B14, you are spending time looking for the continuation of the story. Suddenly, it takes longer for you to read the same amount of words. Even worse is a Choose-Your-Own-Adventure book. With these, you can only read a few paragraphs before you have to find the next part. This slows you down considerably.

So it is with hard drives. If everything is streamlined, then the data will flow quickly. If the drive has to search for all the parts continuously, the data flow suffers.

So, one suggestion may be to optimize your source drive. That will put each file in one continuous data stream. You can do this with a multitude of applications, such as Norton Utilities.

Another solution is to create a disc image, which will write (in one continuous stream) all of the information for the CD to a disk drive, including the directories. This is sometimes necessary for slower hard disks to operate with faster CD burn speeds.

Of course, one other solution is just to reduce the recording speed of the CD-Recorder. Some source disks may just be too slow for higher speed recording (ie Zip, old 44 meg SyQuest, etc). Also, if you’re just making one quick CD, it may be faster to simply record the CD at 2x or even 1x, instead of defraging the drive, then burning the CD at 4x.

Other problems

Jam cannot identify the CD-Recorder - There is a file labeled TEAC CD-R56S. This file must be in the same folder as the Jam application at boot-up. When Jam starts up, it looks for these driver files and adds them to their list. This file MUST REMAIN in the same folder as Jam.

Icannot extract audio from my CD-ROM. - If you are trying to extract audio from an audio CD or trying to copy from CD to CD, your CD-ROM must be capable of these functions. (Not all CD- ROMs can do that.) If necessary, the 6x24 drive is capable of most of these types of functions, so you may use the CDR drive to extract to your hard drive, then burn back to the CD.

The drive is not recording to the blank CDs. - There could be several causes for this:

1)Make sure the disc you are using is a regular CDR media. CD- RW discs are not compatible with this drive. “For Music Only” CDs may also cause problems, as they are designed for use with consumer component CD-Recorders.

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Contents Installing the CD-R624M Bundle Packing ListCDR Introductory Tutorial Bias SFX Machine Lite Effect ProcessingRecording Audio Bias Peak LE & SFX Machine LiteCompression None BitAssembling Audio CDs Assembling Data CDs Encoding Options What is MP3?AudioCatalyst Tutorial Encoding MP3 Files Playing MP3 FilesUnderruns TroubleshootingOther problems SFX Machine doesn’t show up in Peak LE. The Plug-Ins System is testing too slow for 6x recording speedsTechnical Support

CD-R624M specifications

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