When I copy data or music, why can’t my CD-ROM drive or CD players see the information or play the music?

●It might be because you are using a CD-RW disc. Most older CD-ROM drives and CD players do not recognize the rewriteable media, so they won’t be able to read the information.

What should I do if I get a gray screen on start-up with my new MAC Tower (Blue) G3?

●See details below for work-around.

Try starting up the computer with the power OFF on the Yamaha drive. When the computer is totally up, turn ON the Yamaha drive and use ADAPTEC’S SCSI Probe 5.1 (download SCSI Probe at http://www.adaptec.com/support/overview/macintosh.html) to mount the drive to the OS. Then open Toast to make CDs.

If you still can’t get your computer to start up, go to your SCSI card manufacture web site and download the current BIOS flash utility and the current firmware from Yamaha. Install the updates and restart the computer with the Yamaha drive turned OFF until the computer is totally up.

No sound is audible when playing back CD-DA (audio CD) dics.

●Check that the line out (L/R) connector of the drive is connected correctly to your sound card or amplified speakers.

Windows used to see my CRW2100FXZ, but now it doesnt. How do I get it back?

●Make sure that the drive is on before you connect it to the PC. If it still won’t mount, do this “RESET” procedure below.

1.) While the drive is ON and connected to the PC, turn it off

2.) Wait for 15 seconds, then disconnect the firewire cable

3.) Apply the power back to the drive

4.) Wait for 15 seconds, and now reconnect the firewire cable to the drive.

My CRW2100FXZ/SXZ is noisy when the disc spins up, is this normal?

●Yes. Like many of the fast CD-ROMs, the CRW2100FXZ/SXZ uses the CAV (Constant Angular Velocity) method to achieve high constant disc rotation speed to increase the data transfer rate. The drive can get very noisy when spinning up a new disc, which is much louder than the usual levels of disc operation.

I do not seem to be able to rip audio CDs at 40x. How can I reach the maximum 40x audio ripping speed?

●Its important to understand that your new CRW2100 series CD-RW recorder could achieve the 40x maximum ripping speed via CAV (Constant Angular Velocity - see page 6 of the Quick Start Guide for details), which is increasingly becoming common in most top performing CD-ROM and CD-RW recorders today. What it means is that audio ripping in the most inner portion of the disc starts at about 16x and progresses further until reaching 40x at the outer portion of the CD. Hence, one should calculate an estimated time.

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