About Your ZipCD^™ Drive

NOTE: This section has illustrations that match your ZipCD^™ drive. In other sections of this manual, external appearance and CD-tray functionality of your ZipCD^™ drive may vary from the pictures shown.

Drive Compatibility

Your ZipCD^™ drive is capable of reading and writing many types of CDs, such as audio CDs, CD-ROMs, CD-Rs, and CD-RWs. Your ZipCD^™ drive can be used in the following ways:

1. Play/Read most types of CD media.


2. Write CD-R discs.


3. Write and Rewrite CD-RW discs.

	Media	Description
	CD-DA CD-ROM CD-R CD-RW	Compact Disc-Digital Audio Compact Disc-Read Only Memory Compact Disc-Recordable Compact Disc-ReWritable

Your ZipCD^™ drive is compatible with the following CD formats:

Disc Type	Format	Description
	CD-DA CD-ROM CD-Extra CD-ROM XA Photo CD* CD-i* CD+G CD Text Video CD	Compact Disc-Digital Audio Compact Disc-Read Only Memory Enhanced Music CD (formerly CD Plus) Multitrack CD-ROM Photo CD Compact Disc-Interactive Compact Disc Plus Graphics Compact Disc Text Compact Disc-Digital Video

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Performance Information

CD drive performance is measured by how quickly the drive can copy a 74-minute audio CD. A standard 1x CD recorder can record an entire 74-minute audio CD (650 MB) in 74 minutes.

	Speed	Description
	8x	CD-R—Your ZipCD™ drive can record a full CD 8 times faster than a standard 1x CD recorder; therefore, your ZipCD™ drive can record a full CD in about 10 minutes.
	4x	CD-RW—Your ZipCD™ drive can create a full rewritable CD 4 times faster than a standard 1x CD recorder; therefore, your ZipCD™ drive can create a full rewritable CD in about 19 minutes.*
	32x	CD Read—Your ZipCD™ drive can read data from a CD-ROM 32 times faster than a standard 1x CD-ROM.
DAE	12x	Digital Audio Extraction (DAE) Rate** —Your ZipCD™ drive can extract digital audio from an audio CD 12 times faster than a standard 1x CD-ROM. For more information on digital audio extraction, visit the troubleshooting section.

* Assuming that the CD-RW media is preformatted.

**NOTE: Many CD-ROM drives do not support DAE at all; others do, but not very well. Few (if any) high speed CD-ROM drives can extract audio successfully at or even near their top-rated data speed. Unsuccessful audio extraction is easy to detect: it sounds bad (clicks, pops, or hissing within the track).

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Drive Controls and Indicators

Your ZipCD^™ drive has controls and jacks on the front and back panel of the drive that are labeled with various indicators. The following section describes these controls and indicators.

Controls and Jacks

1. Head Phone Jack
   
2. Volume
   
3. Write Status LED
   
4. General Status LED
   
5. Eject Button
   

1. Digital Audio Out
   
2. Analog Audio Out
   
3. Jumper Block
   
4. IDE Connector
   
5. Power Connector
   

NOTE: Iomega provides the cable for the analog audio out connector only. Although the digital audio out (SP-DIF) connector provides better sound quality, it is not supported by many sound cards. Check your sound card's owner's manual for compatibility information.

LED Status Lights

The ZipCD^™ drive has two LED indicator lights on the front of the drive that show the status of the drive. See the front panel illustration, above, for the location of these LEDs.

The General Status LED will either be green or red. It indicates that a disc is spinning up, the drive is ready, the disc is being accessed, or there is an error.

The Write Status LED will be orange. It indicates that a write (or test write) is in progress.

The General Status LED and Write Status LED work in combination to indicate drive functions and error messages. The following table lists some of these combinations:

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