Toshiba M40 user manual Writing CD/DVDs on DVD Super Multi drive supporting DVD+R DL

Writing CD/DVDs on DVD Super Multi drive supporting DVD+R DL

DVD+RW	MITSUBISHI CHEMICAL CORPORATION
	RICOH Co., Ltd.
DVD+R DL	Panasonic Industrial Sales (Taiwan) Co., Ltd.
	Taiwan TEAC Corporation.
	MITSUBISHI CHEMICAL CORPORATION
DVD-RAM	DVD Specifications for DVD-RAM Disc for Version
	2.0 or Version 2.1
	Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
	Hitachi Maxell Ltd.

NOTE: This drive cannot use discs that allow writing of 8 speeds or more (DVD-R, DVD+R ), 4 speeds or more (DVD-RW, DVD+RW).

◆If the disc is poor in quality, dirty or damaged, writing or rewriting errors may occur. Be careful to check the disc for dirt or damage before you use it.

◆The actual number of rewrites to CD-RW, DVD-RW, DVD+RW or DVD- RAM is affected by the quality of the disc and the way it is used.

◆There are two types of DVD-R discs: authoring and general use discs. Do not use authoring discs. Only general use discs can be written to by a com- puter drive.

◆You can use DVD-RAM discs that can be removed from a cartridge and DVD-RAM discs designed without a cartridge. You cannot use a disc with a 4.7 GB single-sided capacity or 9.4 GB double-sided capacity.

◆Other DVD-ROM drives for computers or other DVD players may not be able to read DVD-R/-RW, DVD+R/+RW or DVD+R DL discs.

◆Data written to a CD-R/DVD-R/DVD+R and DVD+R DL disc cannot be deleted either in whole or in part.

◆Data deleted (erased) from a CD-RW and DVD-RW, DVD+RW and DVD- RAM disc cannot be recovered. Check the content of the disc carefully before you delete it. If multiple drives that can write data to discs are con- nected, be careful not to delete data from the wrong drive.

◆In writing to a DVD-R/-RW, DVD+R/+RW, DVD-RAM or DVD+R DL disc, some disc space is required for file management, so you may not be able to write the full capacity of the disc.

◆Since the disc is based on the DVD standard, it will be filled with dummy data if the written data is less than about 1 GB. Even if you write only a small amount of data, it might take time to fill in the dummy data.

◆DVD-RAM formatted by FAT32 cannot be read in Windows 2000 without DVD-RAM Driver Software.

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