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CD Recorder Functions

Writing to Disc: Choosing the Source

The Write Dialog Box

Read: Copying Data from the CD Recorder

Load Contents

Medium Info

Unit Info

Re-Scan SCSI Bus...

Error Messages


Writing to Disc: Choosing the Source

Write from the CD-Recorder menu

Keys: ALT + R, W

Choose one of these options in the dialog box:

•	Virtual: Write the current virtual image on the fly to CD.

•	File: Brings up an Open-type dialog box from which you may select from hard disk any file that is a Mode 1 ISO 9660 image or an audio track.

•	SCSI Device: See below.

•	Cue Sheet: Write from a previously prepared Cue Sheet.

Click on OK to proceed to the Write dialog box.

Related Topics:

Writing from a SCSI Device


Writing from a SCSI Device

When you choose to write from a SCSI Device, the program scans the SCSI bus to see what devices are connected (aside from the CD recorder itself), and lists them in a scroll box:

SCSI Source Device Dialog Box

Highlight the device you wish to copy from in the Source dialog box and click on OK. This dialog box will appear:

If the SCSI device you are reading from contains an ISO image, the correct starting address and data length in bytes should be entered automatically; in not, type them in.

If your source is a CD, see the chapter How to Copy Data from CD.


The Write Dialog Box

Select any combination of:

Disk at Once

Write and close an entire disc in one operation. Requires a blank disc.

Write Data

Write to disc the data shown in the Table of Contents window. (If "Write Data" is deselected, "Verify Data" is unavailable.)

Write Speed

Select the desired write speed.

Verify Data

Perform a byte-for-byte verification of data written to disc when writing is completed.

Close Session As

Select the format in which you wish the session to be closed:

•	CD-DA

•	CD-ROM

Available only in Easy-CD Pro MM:

•	CD-ROM XA

•	CD-I

Easy-CD Pro MM users: According to the Orange Book standard, a session may be closed as CD-ROM or CD-ROM XA regardless of what format it is recorded in. However, to avoid problems of incompatibility with the CD-ROM drive you will use to read back the disc, we strongly suggest that you always close sessions as CD-ROM unless you are recording a Mode 2 image, or you have a strong reason to do otherwise.

Close Disc

Close the entire disc. After a disc has been closed, no more data can be written to it — DO NOT close unless you are sure you will never want to add data to this disc.

Progress Meter

If this box is deselected, when writing begins you will see a static dialog box on screen, which tells you how long it will take to write the disc.

If this box is checked, when writing begins you will see a dialog box on screen with a moving progress gauge to indicate the percentage of work completed.

It is generally preferable to leave the box deselected, especially when writing at higher speeds, as even the small amount of memory needed to run the progress bar can slow down the speed of data transfer to the CD recorder's buffer.

Medium Info

Click to bring up the Medium Info dialog box with information about the disc currently in the drive (see below).

Tray/Eject

Open and close the disc tray, or eject the disc caddy.

Default

Click to use the current settings as default in future recording sessions. These default settings will be maintained until you reset them using this button again.

Table of Contents

Shows the complete contents of the disc to be written.

Selecting a track in the Table of Contents box displays its track type and mode in the drop-down box beneath the Table of Contents box. The track type is set automatically and cannot be changed. The following types of tracks can be written:

•	Audio (2352): CD-DA audio

•	Mode 1 (2048): Mode 1 CD-ROM

Available only in Easy-CD Pro MM:

•	Mode 2 (2336)

•	Mode 2 (2352)

Pre-Emphasis

Select "Pre-emphasis" to raise the initial playback volume of your audio track by two decibels. You can use this if the original recorded volume level of your track was low and needs to be raised. However, if the original volume level was high and Pre-emphasis is selected, then the additional two dB could clip some of the track's high volume sounds (that is, raise the sound level too high to hear).

Close

To exit the Write dialog box.

Related Topics:

Test

Write


Test

Before writing your disc, especially when writing on-the-fly, it is wise to test to make sure that your system can pass information quickly enough to the memory buffer of the CD recorder to keep a steady flow of data. If your hard disk is slow, and particularly where the image to be written contains many small files, you may get the error message "Buffer Underrun," meaning the files could not be opened and passed along quickly enough to keep the cache full.

Click on Test in the Write dialog box. This dialog box appears:

Medium Info, again, provides information about the disc loaded into the currently-selected writer, through the Medium Info dialog box.

Click on Start to begin the write test. A progress dialog box appears. The status bar at the bottom of the dialog box will inform you of the progress of the test. If you are test-writing a Cue Sheet, the track names will change, but the percentage bar at lower left reflects the percentage completed of the total contents of the Cue Sheet.


Write

When you are satisfied with the results of the Test, click on Write to begin writing. This dialog box appears:

If the unit is already loaded with a writeable disc, Unit Status will show OK. To see detailed information about the disc, click on Medium Info, and the Medium Info dialog box will appear (see below for details). When all is as you want it, click on the Start button; the Write progress dialog box will appear. If you checked Verify Data in the Write CD dialog box, verification will be carried out after writing is completed. The Verify dialog box will keep you informed of the verification process.

If problems are encountered in writing or verifying, after you have acknowledged the error message you will be returned to the Write CD dialog box.

Multiple Copies

If you had selected to write multiple copies of the same disc, when the REC dialog box appears you will see the message "Disc n of m must be in the unit." Insert the disc and close the tray, then click OK. When writing is completed the disc will be ejected and the message will request the next disc.


Read: Copying Data from the CD Recorder

Read from the CD-Recorder menu

Keys: ALT + R, R

To import an entire track from compact disc to hard disk. See the chapter How to Copy Data from CD for details. The dialog box also gives information on the CD in the recorder. (See Medium Info.)

Related Topics:

Copy Track Information Dialog Box


Copy Track Information Dialog Box

Select the track you want to copy to hard disk from the Track box, then click on Copy Track. The following dialog box appears, proposing the starting address and length (in sectors) of the highlighted track. These can be changed if necessary. Click on OK.

The Save to...dialog box appears; specify the path and name in which to save the track being copied.

The track will be copied from the CD loaded in the recorder to hard disk. You can then write this file to another CD by choosing either the File option in the Source dialog box or through the Cue Sheet function.


Load Contents

Load Contents from the CD-Recorder menu

Keys: ALT + R, L

Load Contents allows you to load into a virtual image the file addresses and directory structure of a previous track or session from a recordable disc in the CD recorder, in order to link data between sessions on a multisession disc (see the chapter How to Write a Multisession Disc for details). The Load Contents dialog box looks almost exactly like that for Medium Info, except that it includes the Load Track button.

Select the track/session whose contents you want to load; the last recorded session is proposed by default.

Click on Load Track. The contents of the session you had selected are now displayed in the main window in the form of a virtual image to which you can add more files/directories as desired. Directories loaded from a previous session are shown in green, and files shown in gray. New directories that you now add to the disc will be shown, as usual, in yellow, and new files will be shown in white.

When you load file and directory structure information into the program window, you are not actually copying any files or directories back to hard disk. You are only creating a new virtual image database with pointers to files which happen already to be recorded on CD.


Medium Info

Medium Info from the CD-Recorder menu

Keys: ALT + R, M

Hotkey: F11

Medium Info can be used to examine any disc, including commercially recorded ones. Displays this information about the disc in the CD recorder:

Size

Size in CD sectors of the recordable disc.

Recordability

•	Blank Disc

•	Recordable not blank Disc

•	Unrecordable Disc

Compatibility

•	This disc contains only one closed session.

•	This disc contains only one open session.

•	This disc contains all closed sessions.

•	This disc contains an open last session.

Style

•	Uninterrupted (Disc at Once)

•	Interrupted CD-DA (Track at Once)

•	Interrupted CD-ROM (Track at Once)

Type:

•	CD-DA or CD-ROM Disc

•	CD-I Disc

•	CD-ROM XA Disc

Space Used

Displays the amount of spaced used, expressed in CD sectors.

Space Free

Displays the amount of free space, expressed in CD sectors, available for recording on the CD. On a closed disc this value will always be zero, no matter how much space is actually left.

UPC/Bar Code

The disc's UPC or bar code, if any.

Total Tracks

The total number of tracks already recorded.

Total Sessions

Displays the number of sessions into which the tracks have been recorded. If the last session written has been closed, the new session already prepared to accept the new track will also be listed, even if it is currently empty.

Table of Contents

This section gives information about the session currently indicated in the list box, and all tracks within the session. You can select other sessions from the drop down box to get information about them. For each track within the session, its mode (audio, CD-ROM, etc.), track address, and length in sectors is shown.

Session

The address and length in sectors of the currently selected session are shown to the right of the Session drop-down box.

Address

Sector starting address of the session.

Length

of the session in CD sectors.

Track List Box

Displays the following information for each track in the session:

Track

Sequential Track number in the selected session.

Type:

•	Audio

•	Mode 1

•	Mode 2

•	Mode 2 (f1-2) — Mode 2, Form 1 or Form 2

Status

•	Complete: When the track is completely written and closed, and its start and stop times are written in the PMA.

•	Empty reserved: when the track has been reserved but not written.

•	Partly written (rsvd): When a track previously reserved is not completely written, and its start and stop times are written in the PMA (only for packet writing mode).

•	Incomplete: When a track previously reserved is not completely written and its start and stop times are NOT written in the PMA (only for packet writing mode).

•	Invisible: This is ALWAYS the last track on the disc and is the next possible track not reserved and not written at all. It disappears when the disc is closed or when the last track status is Damaged. Its size is always the same as the amount of free space on disc.

•	Damaged: When the track writing process has been interrupted too early (before at least 300 sectors are written) or when something went wrong during recording (e.g., the recorder got bumped).

Address

CD sector starting address of the track.

Length

in CD sectors.

Refresh

Load information about a new disc inserted into the drive.

Tray/Eject

Open the disc tray.

Recover Track

If the selected track is damaged, you can click Recover Track to repair it. It then becomes a Complete track.

Related Topics:

Track Info


Track Info

You may click on Track Info to open this dialog box (if the track is audio):

or this one (if the track is data):


Unit Info

Unit Info from the CD-Recorder menu

Keys: ALT + R, U

Reports technical data about the CD recorder.

Vendor ID. The CD recorder manufacturer.

Product ID. The CD recorder model number.

Firmware ver. The SCSI firmware version.

SCSI configuration. The SCSI ID, LUN, and HA numbers.


Re-Scan SCSI Bus...

Re-Scan SCSI Bus... from the CD-Recorder menu

Keys: ALT + R, S

Whenever you launch the program, if your CD recorder is powered on and connected, it will automatically be recognized and installed. If you have more than one CD recorder, or if you turn it on after starting the program, select Re-Scan SCSI Bus from the CD-Recorder menu. A dialog box like this will open (the numbers in parentheses are only examples of possible SCSI ID, LUN, and host adapter numbers!)


Error Messages

Answers/explanations are not supplied for all of the error messages listed below. Some messages which occur frequently and/or are common to all CD recorders are explained in the Troubleshooting chapter. Some of the messages are self-explanatory; others never (or almost never) appear.

If you encounter a non-obvious error for which no response is given here, please document the case thoroughly and contact tech support. Your cooperation is appreciated in helping us make this software the best that it can be.

A damaged track is present on the disc.	Appears in the Write Start dialog box. If present, you cannot write to this disc. Use the Recover Track feature in the Medium Info dialog box to repair the track, then you can write to the disc.
A Mode 1 or Mode 2 track may not be recorded together with a Mode 2 (form 1-2) track in the same session (or Disc).
A Mode 1 or Mode 2 track may only be recorded in a CD-ROM or CD-DA session.
A Mode 2 (form 1-2) track may only be recorded in a CD-XA or CD-I session.
All sessions on this disc must be closed as CD-ROM or CD-DA.
All sessions on this disc must be closed as CD-XA or CD-I.
A CD-XA session cannot contain an audio track.
Audio address not valid.
Audio play operation aborted.
Audio play operation stopped due to error.
Bad Cue Sheet index.	The Cue Sheet file (*.cue) is corrupted. The reason may be that many tracks have been added to and deleted from it the Cue Sheet. Create a new Cue Sheet.
Buffer data size error.
Buffer error.
Buffer overflow for read all subcodes command.	Occurs during a Read of an audio track if the track is not written to hard disk fast enough to keep up with the reading speed of the Sony. To avoid this problem, audio tracks are read at the slowest possible speed.
Buffer under run.	The flow of data to the CD recorder must be extremely regular so that its buffer is never empty. This message indicates that for some reason the flow of data has been interrupted. One reason may be your RAM cache, Windows' SmartDrive. Also ensure that no screen savers or other TSR utilities are active which might momentarily interrupt operations, and that your working hard disk cannot be accessed via network. See the Troubleshooting chapter for details.
Byte per byte verify failed at sector ____.	(When "Verify Data" is checked in the Write dialog box.) The newly recorded data on CD does not acceptably resemble the source data (e.g., the source data written from a hard disk). The data was either not written to CD correctly or not read from CD correctly. You could have a defective recordable disc. Try writing the data again to a new disc.
Check Sony CDU-920S condition.
Check writer conditions.
Circ unrecovered error.
Data out DMA controller error n.____.
Demo mode: export too long. When running in demo mode, you cannot write for more than 1 minute.
Diagnostic failure on component (internal bus failure).	Internal error. Have your CD recorder checked.
Disc MUST be blank for Disc At Once.
Disc style mismatch.
Encoder/Writer communication failure.
End of user area encountered on this track.	When using the Read function to copy a track from CD to hard disk. Usually happens only when you change the starting address and/or length of the track to read.
Error writing track.	Occurs when copying a track from CD to hard disk using the Read function. Probably the receiving file is corrupted.
FILENAME is not a .WAV file. Are you sure it's an acceptable audio format?	A file in the Cue sheet you are writing has been defined as "Audio" in the Track Type dialog box, but the program does not recognize it as a standard WAV file.
Focus servo failure.
Illegal block length for write command.
Illegal Cue Sheet.
Illegal mode for this track.
Illegal request.
Illegal reserve length for reserve track command.
Illegal track status.
Inappropriate command: this track has been interrupted too early (it needs to be at least 300 sectors), so it must be recovered.
Inappropriate command.
Inappropriate/illegal message.
Initiator detected error message received.
Insufficient disk space.	When attempting to copy a track using the Read function, the free space on the target hard disk is not enough to contain it.
Internal error.
Internal target failure.
Invalid command operation code.
Invalid field in CDB.
L-EC uncorrectable error.
Last 2 blocks stripped (Orange book link).	This is information, not an error! This message appears when copying a track to hard disk using the Read function, if the track you are reading was created as multisession-compliant (following the Orange Book standard) by this or any other program. This is because a multisession track is always followed by two run-out blocks. These are included in the count of the total size (in blocks) of the track, but do not contain data and cannot be read back. This message appears to alert you just in case you notice that you got two blocks fewer than were reported in the read length dialog box, but don't panic — you have not lost any data!
Link blocks encountered.	A wrong address or length is specified when using the Read function.
Logical block address out of range.
Logical unit communication failure.
Logical unit is in progress of becoming ready.
Logical unit is reserved.
Logical Unit not ready.
Logical unit not supported.
Media load eject failed.	The CD recorder is not working properly . Try turning it off and back on again.
Media load mechanism failed.
Medium not present.	No disc is loaded in the drive.
Medium removal prevent.	Probably the previous operation was interrupted and the medium has not been released. Try turning the recorder off and back on again.
Message error.
No damaged track present on disc.
No next recordable address present on disc.
No seek complete.
No Table Of Contents.
No track present to close.
Nonexistent block encountered.
Not enough space on disc.
Not enough space.	There is not enough space on CD to write tracks of this Cue Sheet.
Not ready to ready transition.
Option not available.
Out of memory.	There is not enough conventional DOS memory free to run the program. Install WinASPI if you have it; otherwise, remove from your CONFIG.SYS any TSRs, utilities, etc. which may be tying up conventional memory.
Overlapped command attempted.
Please use MM version to write this Cue Sheet.	Attempting to write a Cue Sheet containing data in a format not supported by the Pro version, probably Mode 2/CD-ROM XA.
Please use MM version to write this track.	Attempting to write a track in a format not supported by the Pro version, probably Mode 2/CD-ROM XA.
Power calibration error.	The CD recorder could not calibrate the laser power for this disc. This most likely means that the recordable disc is bad. Try again with another disc; if the problem persists, contact the CD recorder manufacturer to have the laser checked.
Power on, reset or bus device reset occurred.	The recorder somehow lost power before you sent the last command. Try sending the command again.
Power on diagnostic failure.
Recovered data with error correction.
Recovered data with L-EC.
Recovered data with retries.
Reserved track present.
Run-out area.	The run-out blocks have been read while trying to copy a track from the CD. Usually happens when you change the default start or length of the track to be copied to hard disk using the Read function.
Saving parameters not supported.
SCSI DMA controller error n.____.
SCSI parity error.	The SCSI chain is not correctly connected. Usually bad termination.
Select/reselect failure.
Setup for this device cannot changed.
Sorry, help not available.	The .HLP file is not in the same directory as the CD recorder driver. Reinstall the software.
Specified Target/LUN is not a Sony CDU-920S.
Specified writer does not exist.
Specified writer is busy.
Speed test not available for Track At Once.	A limitation of this CD recorder.
Spindle servo failure.
String number _____ not found.
Sub-code out DMA controller error n. %u.
The ______ sector size does not match the settings. Continue?
The invisible track is not present on disc.
Track too small. Track must be at least 300 blocks.	Under the ISO 9660 standard, a track must be at least 300 blocks (600 kilobytes). Only occurs with tracks not written by the program, because tracks created by the program are automatically filled out with zeroes to 300 blocks (if necessary).
Tracking servo failure.
Unable to create file.	When copying a track using the Read function, the receiving file on hard disk cannot be created. Probably the hard disk is write-protected or the file already exists and cannot be deleted.
Unable to open file.	When trying to write a track to CD from a file (or from a file in the Cue Sheet), that file couldn't be opened. Could be that the file is locked by another application, or has been deleted.
Unable to read file.	When trying to write a track to CD from a file (or from a file in the Cue Sheet), the file couldn't be read. The file may be corrupted or locked.
Unable to read from SCSI device.	When writing a track to CD from a SCSI device something goes wrong. Device is off-line, or not ready, or source is corrupted.
Unable to recover Table Of Contents.
Unable to verify audio tracks.	This CD recorder cannot verify audio tracks.
Unable to write a multiple session CD.
Unrecordable disc.
Unrecoverable track descriptor encountered.
Unwritten area encountered.
Wait dialog error.
Warning! This ISO image was not created for this disc. Continue?	When you wrote this real ISO image to hard disk, a different CD was inserted in the CD recorder, and the sector addresses for the files in the ISO image were calculated for that disc, taking into account the space already used on the disc.  If you now record the ISO image to a different CD (or if other data has been recorded to the same CD in the meantime), the file addresses in the ISO image will be incorrect, and the resulting disc will be unusable.
WARNING: closing the first session as CD-DA will close this disc so that no further sessions may be written. Do you want to continue?	This CD recorder insists that if the first session on a disc is closed as CD-DA, the entire disc must be closed.
Write error track recovered.
Write error.
Write session aborted or completed with error.	Appears at the end of a writing session, if there was an error or if the user cancelled writing.
Writer control I/F fatal error.
Writer control I/F I/O error.
Writer error/abort.
Writer error/continue.
Writing not ready.