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Corel CD Creator README Information =================================== This document includes last minute product information about Corel CD Creator and its related modules. This document also provides information about specific manufacturers' hardware. The information provided in this document isn't available in the printed or online documentation. Table of Contents ================= A. Setup and configuration 1. Compact disc recorders supported 2. Digital audio extraction 3. Read and write buffer sizes 4. The Windows MCI sound driver 5. Corel CD Creator and PCD Creator B. Disc preparation and recording 1. Known problems 2. Using the File Manager for drag-and-drop 3. Testing without compact disc recorders 4. Decreasing the track buffer threshold 5. Determining temporary disk space requirements 6. Importing sessions 7. Adding items from multiple removable media sources 8. Problem writing multiple sessions 9. CD Creator doesn't start C. Supplemental CD-ROM software 1. Switching tasks 2. Creating multi-volume discs with PCD Creator D. Supplemental CD-ROM software 1. Host adapters and ASPI managers 2. Corel's CD-ROM device driver 3. CorelCDX 4. Session Changer and CDSESN 5. DOS commands =================================== A. Setup and configuration =================================== A-1. Compact disc recorders supported ------------------------------------- The version of CD Creator you are using is an OEM build for Pinnacle Micro which supports the Pinnacle RCD1000 and RCD5020 compact disc recorders. The following recorders have been tested by Corel and are supported by the complete retail version Corel CD Creator. Please contact Corel Corporation for further information: * HP 4020i * JVC XR-S201 * Kodak PCD225, PCD200, PCD200 Plus, and PCD600 * Microboards Playwrite 1000 * Optima CD-R650 * Pioneer DWS114X * Philips CDD521, CDD522, and CDD2000 * Plasmon RF4000 and RF4100 * Ricoh RS9200CD and RO-1060C * Smart and Friendly CD-R1002, CD-R2000, and CD-R4000 * Sony CDU920S and CSP9211S * Yamaha CDR100, CDE100, and CDE102 A-2. Digital audio extraction ----------------------------------- If you plan to record audio information from existing compact discs, you require a CD-ROM drive that supports digital audio extraction. The device driver controlling the drive must also support digital audio extraction. For information about digital audio extraction and how to test your CD-ROM drives, see Chapter 4, "Configuring Corel CD Creator", in the Users' Manual. Corel has tested the following CD-ROM drives with Corel's CD-ROM device driver, named CUNI_ASP.SYS, to verify that the drives support digital audio extraction: * Apple CD300 * HP 4020i * IBM CD-ROM II * JVC XR-S201 * Nakamichi MBR-7 * NEC 2xc CDR-C301 * Optima CD-R650 * Panasonic CR503 * Pinnacle RCD5020 * Pioneer DRM-602X and DWS114X * Philips CDD2000 * Plextor PX43CH and PX45CH * Smart and Friendly CD-R1002 * Sony CDU561, CDU920S, and CSP9211S * Toshiba XM3401, XM4101, XM4100a * Yamaha CDR100, CDE100, and CDE102 A-3. Read and write buffer sizes -------------------------------- The User's Manual indicates that this README file provides information about the read and write buffer sizes available with each compact disc recorder supported by Corel CD Creator. However, because the system tests set default values based on the test results, this information isn't required in this README file. A-4. The Windows MCI sound driver --------------------------------- Corel CD Creator makes use of the services provided by the Windows MCI sound driver to work with WAV files and to create audio discs. Therefore, if this driver isn't loaded, Corel CD Creator can't work with WAV files, create audio discs, or create mixed mode discs. You can load the MCI sound driver via the Drivers icon in your Windows Control Panel. For information about the MCI drivers, see your Windows documentation. A-5. Corel CD Creator and PCD Creator -------------------------------------- After installing or reinstalling Corel CD Creator, you must start Corel CD Creator and run its system tests before running PCD Creator. ================================= B. Disc preparation and recording ================================= B-1. Known problems ------------------- 1. Problems occur when jewel case layouts are copied to CorelDRAW! 4 and 5. The rotated text for the "foldover" portions of the back cover don't import properly. 2. If your system is low on memory and you try to add a WAV file, Corel CD Creator may display an error that indicates the file is invalid. Make more memory available and then try to add the WAV file again. 3. The Print Setup doesn't show jewel case inserts in landscape mode. 4. When recording a disc layout, Corel CD Creator may access files in its installation directory, temporary files directory, music database directory, and music cache directory. Therefore, problems may occur during the recording if you include files from these directories in the disc layout. 5. The results of the system tests set the size of the read and write buffers. In rare cases, you may need to adjust these default sizes if problems occur while recording disc layouts. 6. If a CD Audio disc layout includes very short tracks of a few seconds, the Disc Info bar may not show accurate status information. B-2. Using the File Manager for drag-and-drop --------------------------------------------- Corel CD Creator supports drag-and-drop from desktop management applications such as the File Manager. The File Manager prevents you from dragging directories and files from its left panel. You can only drag from the right panel. B-3. Testing without compact disc recorders ------------------------------------------- You can test a recording without connecting a recorder to your system. Corel CD Creator supports a "NULL" device that disregards all write commands. After you've configured the NULL device, it's listed as a recorder that you can select, just as you select any other recorder. To configure the NULL device, remove the semi-colon (;) from the beginning of the following entry in the [Devices] section of CDCREATR.INI file: nullDevice=NULL B-4. Decreasing the track buffer threshold ------------------------------------------ When creating data or mixed mode discs, Corel CD Creator copies all files smaller than or equal to a specific size to a temporary file on your hard disk. The use of this "track buffer" reduces the risk of buffer under run errors while recording disc layouts that include many small files. Although the use of the track buffer significantly improves the reliability of Corel CD Creator, the buffer also lengthens the setup and preparation time required to create a disc. The point at which files are no longer copied to the track buffer is known as the track buffer threshold. By default, Corel CD Creator uses a track buffer threshold of 100 KB. Note: The Users' Manual incorrectly indicates that the default track buffer threshold is 0.5 MB. The value of 100 KB was chosen to increase reliability on lower- end systems, but may be fairly conservative for higher-end systems. Corel has found that many 486-33 (or faster) systems are capable of working with a track buffer threshold of 50 KB or less. Therefore, you may want to experiment with varying the track buffer threshold. You must restart Corel CD Creator for the new value to take effect. You should always perform at least one simulated recording with a typical layout after changing the track buffer threshold. If the threshold is set too low, you may experience buffer under run errors while data is being written to the disc. To change the threshold value 1. From the Notepad, open the CDCREATR.INI file, which is located in your Windows directory. 2. Change the value assigned to the 'TrackBufferThresholdInKB=' entry in the [Advanced] section. The value is specified in kilobytes and may be any value from 0 to 65535. B-5. Determining temporary disk space requirements --------------------------------------------------- If your hard drive doesn't provide enough space to build the temporary file, the action that Corel CD Creator takes depends on the type of disc you're creating and whether you set the "Force Single Track" option before starting the recording process. If you're creating a CD-ROM disc and you haven't enabled the "Force Single Data Track" option, Corel CD Creator splits the data into multiple tracks. Tracks are written each time that the temporary buffer becomes full. If you're creating a CD-ROM disc and you have enabled the "Force Single Data Track" option, Corel CD Creator quits the disc creation and displays an error message, which indicates that more temporary disk space is required to record the layout. Corel CD Creator also terminates the disc creation if you're recording a mixed mode disc and all the data can't be written in the first track. B-6. Importing sessions ------------------------ If you import a session that has hidden directories into a layout, the directories won't appear as hidden items in the layout. These directories also won't be written to the CD-R disc as hidden items. You must manually set the Hidden option of the directories' item properties before Corel CD Creator will write the directories as hidden. This applies only to imported directories. Imported files retain hidden attributes. B-7. Adding items from multiple removable media sources -------------------------------------------------------- When Corel CD Creator creates a disc, the order in which files are read is partially based on the file size. Therefore, if files of a similar size are located in different directories across different removable media, you will be required to change the media each time Corel CD Creator must process a file on different media. This may result in an unnecessarily high number of media changes. Therefore, to reduce the number of times that you must change the removable media while Corel CD Creator is building the temporary file, you can use file priorities. To each group of files that were added from the same removable media, assign different file priorities. This forces Corel CD Creator to process the files on one disk before prompting you to insert the next disk. B-8. Problem writing multiple sessions ---------------------------------------- Corel recommends that you write all sessions on a CD-R disc using only one manufacturer's compact disc recorder. If you attempt to write multiple sessions on a disc using recorders from different manufacturers, the recorders may be unable to perform the write. B-9. CD Creator doesn't start ------------------------------- If the date on your computer is set to a year that's greater than or equal to 2000, Corel CD Creator is unable to start. Reset your computer's date to a year less than 2000 and the date won't cause any further problems. For information on setting your computer's date, see the documentation provided with DOS. If your computer's date was set to the year 2000 or greater, you may experience an "Internal Database Error" after you've reset the date and attempted to start Corel CD Creator. This error indicates that one or more of the database files wasn't created properly. You must delete all of the database files to correct this problem. Use the Windows File Manager to delete the following files from the CDCREATR directory on your hard disk: CAUDIODB.CDB, CDAUDIOD.CDX, CDAUDIOD.DBF, CDAUDIOP.CDX, CDAUDIOP.DBF, CDAUDIOT.CDX, and CDAUDIOT.DBF. These database files are recreated the next time you start Corel CD Creator. =================================== C. PCD Creator =================================== C-1. Switching tasks ---------------------------- If you switch to another task from any of PCD Creator's dialog boxes, the only way to return to PCD Creator is using Alt+Tab. C-2. Creating multi-volume discs with PCD Creator -------------------------------------------------- When using PCD Creator to create custom photo discs, writing multiple times to a single disc creates a multi-volume disc, not an incremental multisession disc. Each time a new set of images is written to the disc, a new volume is created on the disc. This is unlike Kodak Photo CDs, where all images appear in the last session. =================================== D. Supplemental CD-ROM software =================================== D-1. Host adapters and ASPI managers ------------------------------------------------ Every SCSI host adapter requires an ASPI manager. The ASPI manager for your host adapter should have been provided with the host adapter. The ASPI manager must be installed and loaded before you can access the compact disc recorder. For your convenience, several ASPI managers have been included with Corel CD Creator. If necessary, you can install the ASPI manager for your host adapter during the Corel CD Creator installation. Information about some host adapters and ASPI managers has been included in the README_2 file. If you have problems with any ASPI manager, contact the manufacturer of your host adapter. D-2. Corel's CD-ROM device driver ---------------------------------- If you're using a memory manager, you may need to uninstall it before installing Corel's CD-ROM driver and then reinstall the memory manager. In rare cases, systems may hang if Corel's CD-ROM device driver is installed while a memory manager is loaded. D-3. CorelCDX -------------- If you're using DOS 5.0, Norton Shell 6.0, and CDXCACHE, Windows may not run. Remove or upgrade any one of the three programs to resolve this problem. D-4. Session Changer and CDSESN -------------------------------- If you run Session Changer or CDSESN, CD-ROM caching software (CorelCDX/CDXCACHE) flushes any cached data for the specified drive, even if the current session isn't changed. D-5. DOS commands ------------------ Corel CD Creator includes two DOS commands that may provide useful information if you have difficulty accessing your CD-ROM devices. SS.EXE scans all host adapters, which have ASPI managers loaded, and lists the SCSI devices detected. CDXINFO.EXE provides summary information about CorelCDX.