SONY BW-RU101 PDD - Page 7

Installation was fairly straightforward, simply plug-in the power and USB 2.0 cables and then switch on the drive. The drive was recognized by Windows XP as a mass storage device on our PC, with device id BW-F101 ID:

Looking at the system properties, the drive was listed under Disk Drives and not under DVD/CD-ROM drives:

You can set the write caching mode, quick removal or performance, according to your needs from the properties dialog window:

The drive's installed firmware was 1.19, the latest available. SONY offers free firmware upgrades with a password/login process:

The SONY PDD drive is compatible with computers running Windows 2000/XP (FAT32 or NTFS), Windows Server 2003 (NTFS), Mac OS10.x (HFS) and certain varieties of UNIX, including Linux, without installing any special drivers. Information on drivers and software is available from this link. For Windows, the disc drive utility is provided as bundled software for external drives BW-RS101 and BW-RU101.

Before being able to use a disc, the user should carry out a physical format of the disc. This will check the integrity of the disc and relocate bad sectors if present. This can be performed in one of two ways:

The first is available through Sony's Physical Format utility: