US Digital Media Accutower CD, User Manual

Page 1: ...Accutower Series Stand aloneTower Duplicators User Manual ...

Page 2: ...1 ACCUTOWER SERIES STAND ALONE TOWER DUPLICATORS User Manual 2008 US Digital Media Inc 1929 West Lone Cactus Drive Phoenix AZ 85027 Phone 623 587 4900 Fax 623 587 4920 Revised 01 08 ...

Page 3: ...r information here for reference Tower Serial Number _______________________________ Order Number _____________________________________ My Sales Rep ______________________________________ Date Purchased ____________________________________ ...

Page 4: ...3 Getting To Know Your Accutower ...

Page 5: ...4 Included with your Accutower User Manual Free inkjet printable media CD media with CD towers CD DVD media with DVD towers Wheels and Hardware Power Cord On 9 burner towers ...

Page 6: ...of Contents C H A P T E R I N D E X P A G E 1 Introduction Quick Start Guide 6 2 Features Specifications 10 3 Control Panel 11 4 Menu Overview 13 5 Operation 17 6 About the Image Manager 31 7 Troubleshooting 33 ...

Page 7: ...operating status or error message s will display on the LCD screen The built in Hard Disk Drive allows users to load many CD and DVD Master Discs onto the HDD for use anytime Disc images stored on the HDD will reduce the risk of damaging master discs and speed up duplication jobs An intelligent hard drive management system will dynamically assign hard drive space to each CD and DVD disc image equa...

Page 8: ...ld find Accutower Duplicator Power cord Wheels and screws select towers only User Manual with these quick set up instructions STEP ONE Set up your Accutower Carefully open box and remove power cord manuals and media Take care when removing Tower from its carton the drive side front of the tower is heavy and may be awkward when lifting Place the system on a level workspace free of debris dust exces...

Page 9: ...e for most users and should not be changed unless a specific setting is required see your manual for instruction on how to set the recording speed source drive etc You are now ready to start duplicating STEP FOUR DVD towers After following these simple steps you will become confident in the basic operations of your Accutower For more detailed instructions and for setup options please refer to the ...

Page 10: ... copies When the tower boots up the default menu will be 1 COPY Place your Master disc into the Reader drive the top drive of the tower Load appropriate blank media into the recording drives it is not necessary to fill the tower The tower will begin automatically after a few moments or you can initiate the burn process with the Enter button Once the burn process is complete the completed discs wil...

Page 11: ...ive Audio track extraction Support for all major disc types Auto detection of source disc SPECIFICATIONS Power Voltage 5Volts 5 Current 0 7Amps Max Environment Working Temperature 0C 75C Storage Temperature 20 C 85 C Humidity Working Humidity 20 80 Storage Humidity 5 95 Model Max Burn CD SPEED Max Burn DVD SPEED Buffer Memory Size Accutower CD 52X 64 MB Accutower DVD 40X 18X 64 MB Chapter 2 ...

Page 12: ... Escape Go back to previous function or menu 2 LCD Display The LCD display is a 2 line x 16 character monochrome Liquid Crystal Display The system displays menu driven function information status information and instructions on the LCD The menus are sequentially numbered and submenus are contained inside root menus The following menu structure is provided as a roadmap of all menus and sub menus Th...

Page 13: ... Mode 11 5 Button Beep 11 6 Skip Read Error 11 7 Eject on Start 11 8 Show Copy Time 11 9 Reader Speed 11 10 Compare Speed 11 11 Change Bad Master Disc 11 12 CD Overburn 11 13 Copy CD TEXT 11 14 Show HDD Image Name 11 15 Boot Password 11 16 Set Password 11 17 Language 11 18 Clear Setup The Following Menu Options are available on select towers 12 Image Manager 12 1 Select Image 12 2 Disc to Image 12...

Page 14: ...l make copies and after copy process has been finished it will perform a comparison process to ensure data correctness 5 Verify This operation will check your master discs and the copied disc s readability to make sure all of your copies are readable 6 Compare This is to make a bit by bit Comparison between Master Reading Source and all the copied discs inside the writer tray This operation is to ...

Page 15: ... feature will allow you to check disc s basic information such as disc type data length and available space 10 6 Drive Info This feature will allow you to check the duplicator s major component information such as manufacturer Writer or Reader model number and version 10 7 System Info This feature provides information about the duplicator including controller model number buffer memory capacity an...

Page 16: ...11 8 Show Copy Time Displays the elapsed copy time after each burn 11 9 Reader Speed Change the speed at which the reader reads discs Slower speeds offer better throughput but take more time 11 10 Compare Speed Changes the speed at which the disc s contents are compared with the HDD image of the disc 11 11 CHG Bad Master This function allows the master disc to be replaced with an exact copy of the...

Page 17: ...k the information in HDD such as how many discs are stored and HDD available space 12 8 Format HDD This feature will allow you to format the HDD However you will not be able to format the HDD if the HDD image was selected as source 12 9 Load Copy Consolidates the imaging and burning process into one step Image Manager is only available on towers equipped with a Hard Drive 13 Link Setup 13 1 Set My...

Page 18: ... start copying During the copy pass the LCD screen will display Master Source Disc s data size and copying progress When the tower is finished with the copy pass the Writer Trays will eject the copied discs Bad or rejected discs will be retained in drives 2 TEST This menu area will allow you to TEST or simulate the copy functions of the Accutower The process is the same as COPY but it won t actual...

Page 19: ...n finished the system will continue to verify to make a disc Readability check When the verification is finished the writer trays will eject 4 COPY COMPARE This operation will make copies and after copy process has been finished it will perform a comparison process to ensure data correctness Therefore the duplicator will not eject discs until discs comparison is finished a The system will detect a...

Page 20: ...ure all of your copies have the exact same information as your Master Reading Source a Put master source disc and all copied discs into the duplicator b Press ENT and the duplicator will start loading disc analyzing source disc and start comparison c When the comparison is finished the writer trays will eject Note 7 SET BURN SPEED This operation will allow you to adjust the burn speed for three di...

Page 21: ... recognized you will see the message of ready to press OK on duplicator LCD screen b Navigate to the track number that you would like to select and then press ENT to confirm your selection Continue your selection with the same activity You will see a letter of a b c d shown on top of each selected track d Once you finish selecting the tracks you want to copy you can press to move cursor to the end...

Page 22: ... press ENT Select 3 Disc Info and press ENT 10 UTILITY This function group includes several disc related functions You can press ENT and move to select the function you want 10 1 Pre scan This feature will help to check whether your Master Source Disc can be correctly duplicated a Select Utility and press ENT Select 1 Pre scan and press ENT 10 2 Quick Erase This operation will erase your re writea...

Page 23: ...asic information such as disc type data length and available capacity a Select Utility and press ENT b Select 4 Eject All Discs and press ENT 10 6 Drive Info This feature will allow you to check the duplicator s major component information such as manufacturer Writer or Reader model number and version a Select Utility and press ENT b Select 6 Drive Info and press ENT c Press ENT and then press to ...

Page 24: ...and select 10 Utility and press ENT b Insert a correct update CD to any Drive c Select 8 Update BIOS and press ENT d The system will start writing the firmware update When finished the update CD will be ejected In 2 seconds the system will re boot The new firmware update is finished 11 SETUP This function group provides several options for customizing your tower 11 1 Power On Time You can set the ...

Page 25: ...function in the menu to see first when you turn on the duplicator Select 11 Setup and press ENT Select 3 Startup Menu and press OK Press to select a menu and press ENT 11 4 Display Mode You can select whether the LCD displays Basic or Expert functions If you are not familiar with this setting we suggest leaving it on Basic Select 11 Setup and press ENT Select 4 Display Mode and press ENT Press to ...

Page 26: ...Only or Eject Source Only Press ENT when finished 11 8 Show Copy Time This function will choose whether or not to display a summary of the burn time Select 11 Setup and press ENT Select 8 Show Copy Time and press ENT a Press to choose Enable or Disable and press ENT 11 9 Reader Speed This setting allows you to change the speed of the source drive for disc to disc copying only Slower settings will ...

Page 27: ...e or disable copying of CD TEXT information Select 11 Setup and press ENT Select 13 Copy CD TEXT and press ENT a Press to Enable or Disable the function and press ENT 11 14 Show HDD Image Name You can choose to display the Hard Disk Drive s Image Name by either Image Name or Capacity Select 11 Setup and press ENT Select 14 Show HDD Image Name and press ENT Press to choose between Image Name or Cap...

Page 28: ...ot show this function 12 1 Select Image This function will guide you to select image files as sources to be copied to discs This function is required when you would like to make copies from HDD to discs Select 12 Image Manager and press ENT Select 1 Select Image and press ENT Use to move between your saved images and press ENT Note 12 2 Disc Image This function will guide you to load your master s...

Page 29: ...nd its file size Select 12 Image Manager and press ENT Select 4 Show Image Info and press ENT a Use to select the image and press ENT Image information will be displayed on the screen 12 5 Rename Image This function allows you to rename an image stored on the HDD Select 12 Image Manager and press ENT Select 5 Rename Image and press ENT a Use to select the image and press ENT You will be prompted t...

Page 30: ...ation will be displayed on the screen press ENT when finished 12 8 Format HDD This feature will allow you to format the HDD This will erase ALL disc images stored on the tower and cannot be undone However you will not be able to format the HDD if the HDD image was selected as Reading Source You should go to 8 Select Source to select Optical Drive as Reading Source and then you will be able to form...

Page 31: ...on to the other towers in the array Select 13 Link Setup and press ENT Select 2 Start Link and press ENT The other towers will be connected to the first one in a few moments 13 3 Update BIOS This feature will allow you to update the BIOS on the tower Select 13 Link Setup and press ENT Select 3 Update BIOS and press ENT Insert a manufacturer s BIOS update disc into the Reader drive When you are rea...

Page 32: ...our HDD The Dynamic HDD Manager has the following special features I Auto Detect Disc Capacity 1 You don t have to predict and select DVD or CD partition sizes in the beginning 2 You can check HDD status in function 12 6 HDD Info The Hard Drive capacity is presented in terms of how many FULL DVD or CD disc images you can load If you are loading small disc images you will get more images As an exam...

Page 33: ...ved ahead due to the deletion 3 You can check your image file information in function 12 4 Show Image Info The image information will present the image file name type and file size Each time a new disc image is loaded the system will assign the lowest number as file name For example if there are no deleted files then the file name will be assigned by sequence from A001 A002 However if a file is de...

Page 34: ...be defective or in rare instances unsupported by the reader Solution 1 Try a different master disc Another copy may be easier for the tower to copy from If this does not work try re burning your master disc at a slower speed or with different media or both ONE OR MORE DRIVES FAILED BURNING Causes The duplicator has one or more drives fail when copying discs likely due to a read error a disc defect...

Page 35: ...different copy of your master disc If the problem persists you may need to re burn your master disc Please visit www cdrom2go com for a list of tips on creating master discs for duplication Solution 2 If the hard drive is full the tower will not allow you to copy any more disc images to the hard drive You may need to delete one or all of the stored images to make room for new ones Both functions c...

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