Explains the system environment required for using the drive as a CD-R/CD-RW drive.

 

Windows Me/98/95(ORS2 or later)

 

Operating System

 

Windows NT Workstation Ver.4.0 (Service Pack 5) or later

 

Windows 2000 (Professional)

 

Windows XP*4

 

● When writing to CD-R/RW: Pentium 166 MHz or higher processors (when

CPU

 

JustLink is used).

 

● When playing DVD: Pentium II 350 MHz or higher processor is required (or, if a

 

graphic chip with DVD playback enhancement capability is used, Pentium II 300

 

MHz or higher processor is required).

 

● When writing to DVD+RW/+R: Pentium II 400 MHz or higher processor (Pentium

 

III 800 MHz processor or higher recommended)*5

 

Writing to CD-R/RW: 64 MB or more

Memory

 

DVD playback: 64 MB or more

 

Writing to DVD+RW/+R: 128 MB or more (256 MB recommended)

 

When writing to CD-R/RW: 100 MB or more free space

Hard disk

 

When writing to DVD+RW/+R: 750 MB or more free space (5 GB or more

 

recommended*6)

 

Must be Enhanced-IDE compatible. In addition, its Primary Slave, Secondary Master,

Interface

 

or Secondary Slave must be blank.

Drive bay

Power

Recommendation discs*2

The system unit must have a blank 5.25-inch bay.

The computer system unit must have a blank +5V/+12V power terminal.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Recommendation

Tested to be compatible

 

 

 

 

Taiyo Yuden, Mitsui Chemicals, Mitsubishi

CD-R

 

Ricoh

 

 

 

Chemical, Maxell

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ricoh

 

Mitsubishi Chemical*1

CD-RW

 

 

 

Ricoh

 

Mitsubishi Chemical

High Speed CD-RW

 

 

 

Ricoh

 

Mitsubishi Chemical

DVD+RW*3

 

 

 

Ricoh

 

 

DVD+R

 

 

*1 The disc written using the CD-R/RW drive may not be readable by CD-ROM drives.

Multi-read compatible (Random UDF compatible) drives are necessary.

*2 Even if it is the recommendation disc, some of discs may have possibility to fail writing with highest writing speed with the problem on the disc. In this case, please

try to write with lower writing speed, or please try to use another disc.

*3 Ricoh's original phase-change recording material which is field-proven for CD-RW is being used after being customized for DVD use. Rewritable DVD+RW having the capacity of 4.7

GB, the same as DVD-ROM.

*4 For information on Windows XP supports, visit Ricoh's Web site

*5 Recommended when Direct-to-DVD capability is being used.

*6 Real-time recording (Pentium 4 1.4 GHz processor is recommended when Direct-to-DVD capability is used). In addition, a video-capture board for image-capturing and the like must be obtained separately.

Multi-read compatible (Random UDF compatible) drives are:

●Drives that can read low reflectivity discs.

●Drives that support Packet Write.