R-Quest TCA-9200, User Manual

Page 1: ...TCA AUTOLOADER UserManual This manual covers the following Products TCA 9200 TCA 9800...

Page 2: ...TCA 9000 Series User Manual_______________________________________________________ iii...

Page 3: ...which you own the copyright or have obtained permission from the copyright owner to make copies Unless you own the copyright or have permission from the copyright owner to make copies you may be viol...

Page 4: ...quent to June 1 2007 4 This warranty shall be valid only if the Product was purchased by the End User from an authorized Global DiscWare Distributor Reseller 5 Heavy use per recorder or printer 12 000...

Page 5: ...Your Product Requires Support If your product requires servicing you should first contact the place of purchase and request support If the service request cannot be completed by the place of purchase...

Page 6: ...for the cost of shipping the product to Global DiscWare During the warranty period Global DiscWare will cover the cost of returning the repaired product to you via UPS Ground or other similar transpor...

Page 7: ...on a USB keyboard 5 Stop Key use the escape key on a USB keyboard 5 LCD DISPLAY 6 MENUS STRUCTURE 6 Copy 6 Compare 6 Batch Mode 6 Image Functions 6 Utilities 7 Setup Menu 11 PASSWORD MENU 14 NETWORK S...

Page 8: ...TCA 9000 Series User Manual_______________________________________________________ ix MENU STRUCTURE 25 APPENDIX D CD CREATION HINTS TIPS 27 DISCS FOR DISTRIBUTION 27...

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Page 10: ...f its size and weight Please ensure safe manual handling procedures are followed Carefully remove your TCA Autoloader from its shipping carton and verify that all parts are present If there are missin...

Page 11: ...f they are not or if these instructions do not work then go to the Operation chapter of this manual for detailed operating instructions Place one Blank disc onto the Input stack the left spindle Use t...

Page 12: ...disc placed there earlier This will be loader into the first recorder The recorder tray will close and you are copying your first Disc There is a timer at the top right corner of the display that coun...

Page 13: ...Autoloader is turned on it goes through a series of self tests and displays several messages Following are two messages displayed during a normal power up First TCA Series by R Quest Technologies Firm...

Page 14: ...the cursor to the next higher character or number If a menu is being displayed this key moves the cursor to the next menu selection up Numbers and characters can also be entered directly using a USB...

Page 15: ...enu selection Copy Use this menu option to start copying discs by reading the master to the hard disk and then copy from the hard disk image See the Copying section of this chapter for further instruc...

Page 16: ...ext Defragment HD Recover all hard drive space associated with erased images Depending on the hard drive size and the number and size of erased images this function can take several minutes to complet...

Page 17: ...ad System F W The system software that is used by the TCA to copy discs may be updated from time to time to add new features or support for new drives The following functions are used to update the fi...

Page 18: ...ctly If you are in any doubt about this please contact Global DiscWare or an authorized Global DiscWare distributor before using this feature The update process is very simple but user confirmation is...

Page 19: ...mware revision While it is possible to use different writer types and different firmware revisions Global DiscWare recommends using the same writer type and the latest approved writer firmware Hard Dr...

Page 20: ...g condition NOTE If this is set to NO the following warning message will be displayed WARNING Copier is in SIMULATE mode Press YES to continue or any other key to cancel and the BURN SIM field of the...

Page 21: ...lost Ask Quantity If set to YES the user will be prompted for a quantity to copy compare If set to NO the machine will copy until told to stop by pressing and holding the STOP key Async Copying When s...

Page 22: ...termines the behavior exhibited on entering image names on the duplicator If this is set to YES the cursor carries forward the previous character entered This allows for faster entering of names throu...

Page 23: ...access to be restricted by passwords A different password can also be set for general use Operator Password and for system setup Setup Password The passwords operate independently of each other so it...

Page 24: ...work does not have a DHCP server or you need to use the TCA autoloader and TrueNet on different sub nets please contact your network administrator for advice Use DHCP Setting the DHCP option to YES me...

Page 25: ...capable of starting recording jobs while the data is being received over the network This can dramatically increase the speed of starting a job However this option should only be used on fast lightly...

Page 26: ...If the initial text is not defined all blanks will be displayed Otherwise the starting text will be displayed Press the left or right arrow to move the cursor the desired character location Then pres...

Page 27: ...e image see Entering Text To use the default name NONAME just press the ENTER key Next the system will ask for the number of Discs to copy Enter Quantity 0000 Place the desired number of blank discs i...

Page 28: ...feature is not available for Audio or Video tracks because Audio Video tracks do not have ECC error correction codes to guarantee data integrity Only data tracks have this Follow the Copying Discs sec...

Page 29: ...al 20 A batch job will terminate if the input hopper is empty and all discs have been recorded or if the first master being read has errors A read error on a master midway through will result in the f...

Page 30: ...or that they are incorrectly installed Check power to each recorder and check that the SCSI cable is correctly connected to each drive and to the copy electronics See Installing Readers Writers secti...

Page 31: ...ions of writing discs but will not actually burn them See the menu item Set up Menu Duplication Options Burn CD in the Operation section for more info Bad Master The system tried to read a master disc...

Page 32: ...S Async Copying NO Check Blank Size YES Master Drive 1 Sticky Media NO Read Write Speed This menu is located at Set up Menu Read Write Speed Read Data 48X Read Audio 48X Write 48X The above speeds ass...

Page 33: ...I Ready Mixed Mode Mode 1 Mixed Mode Mode 2 Playstation Developer CD Extra Blue Book a k a Enhanced CD CD Plus Kodak Photo CD Video CD White Book DOS Windows MAC UNIX Linux etc ISO 9660 for CD DVD Blu...

Page 34: ...W Load F W From CD Load F W XMODEM Load F W from USB Only if USB device is inserted with valid firmware file Load Drive F W Load Loader F W Select Firmware Only if Dual Firmware installed System Logs...

Page 35: ...ame Duplicator IP Only if Use DHCP NO Network Mask Only if Use DHCP NO Gateway IP Address Only if Use DHCP NO Time Date Set Time Set Date Set Date Format Password Set up Operator Password Enable Passw...

Page 36: ...t CD PacketCD Spira These types of disc contain bad blocks because of the way that the Packet system writes them Masters containing bad blocks intentional or not are rejected as unreadable Certain cop...

Page 37: ...__________TCA 9000 Series User Manual 28 R Quest by Global DiscWare TCATM User Manual Part Number 900 00016 01 Revision D Copyright 2002 2007 R Quest Technologies LLC Copyright 2007 Global DiscWare In...