Yamaha CRW3200E CD-RW
2. Installation
Yamaha CRW3200E IDE CDR-W - Page 2
- The Package
The package supplied was a pre-release version with final firmware/hardware and included only the drive itself and the necessary CDR software: Nero OEM 5.5.5.1, Ahead InCD v2.32 and NeroMIX v1.227. The retail package will include a well printed manual, among with Yamaha's 80min 24x CDR media, one piece of Yamaha's 4-10x (HS-RW) media, mounting screws and IDE cable. The retail package for European Audience will include 2 years of warranty. The estimated retail price is around $200.
Let's take a look at the drive itself. The drive has a different front design than previous Yamaha models giving a rather futuristic look with the special "intense blue" LED that lights up when recording. The LED will change to a purple-white (fluorescent) color when the drives are idle. The logos of "Yamaha", "SafeBurn", "HighSpeedRW" and "24/10/40" give right away the drive capabilities:
The
drive has only one LED (electric blue) and the usual controls: eject button,
headphone input jack and volume potentiometer. On the back of the drive we find
the usual connectors (IDE interface and Power), the jumpers for setting the
drive to Master/Slave option, analogue and digital audio output connectors and
a hole (to be used with the optional internal SCSI connector):
- Installation
The
Yamaha CRW3200E was installed as Master in the secondary IDE BUS. The drive
worked in UDMA-2 mode and after boot up, it identified itself as the "Yamaha
CRW3200E". We unchecked the Auto Insert notification, checked DMA and
rebooted. The drive was a September 2001 model with firmware revision v1.00
installed. After our first test, Yamaha supplied us a second sample unit which
corrected most of the problems we had with the first sample unit. The second
drive had vT.3a firmware revision. For most of our tests we used: Nero 5.5.5.1/4/6,
Ahead InCD v3.12b, Padus DJ v3.50.799 and CloneCD v3.1.0.0.
Below are the full specifications of the Yamaha CRW3200E:
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Model
Name
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CRW3200E-VK
INTERNAL IDE ATAPI |
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Interface
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Enhanced IDE (E-IDE) ATAPI
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Data
Capacity
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650MB (74min) 700MB (79min)
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Writing
Speed CD - R
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1X, 2X, 4X, 8X, 12X (CLV), 16X, 18 -
24X (Partial CAV)
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Writing
Speed CD - RW
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2X, 4X, 8X, 10X (CLV), 10X (4X-10X Full
CAV), 12X (Virgin Disc Format)
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Reading
Speed
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40x (max.) Full CAV
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Data
Buffer Size
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8MB (3,224sectors)
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Average
Random Access Time
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130msec. (reading)
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Disc
Loading Type
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Front auto-loading tray loading
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Writing
Methods
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Disc-at-Once,
Session-at-Once, Track-at-Once, Packet Writing
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Writing
Formats
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CD-DA,
CD-G, CD TEXT, CD-ROM, CD-ROM XA, Photo CD, Video
CD, CD-I, CD EXTRA, CD-MRW, Audio Master
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Audio Master mode
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Linier Velocity: 1.4m/s
63 min. (650MB disc) 68 min. (700MB disc) |
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Weight
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0,9kg
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Accessories
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Blank CD-R
Blank CD-RW ATAPI Flat Cable Fastening Screws Owners Manual Software Guide Software |
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Software
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Ahead: Nero 5.5, InCD, NeroMIX, Nero
Wave Editor ,Nero Toolkit
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- Test Machine
WinMe/XP OS
Soyo 7VCA
Celeron II 566 over clocked to 850 MHz
128MB SDRAM PC 133
WD 18GB UDMA 66
Quantum Fireball EX 6.4 GB UDMA 33
DAWI 2975 - PCI (ULTRA) SCSI Host Adapter
ATI AIW 128
PleXWriter PX-W2410A firmware v1.02
AOpen CRW2440 firmware v0.95
LiteOn LTR-24102B firmware v5S0F
Yamaha CRW3200E firmware v1.00/vT.3a
