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Explains the system environment required for using the drive as a CD-R/CD-RW drive.
PC IBM PC/AT compatible
Operating System Windows Me/98/95(ORS2 or later)
Windows NT Workstation Ver.4.0 (Service Pack 5) or later
Windows 2000 (Professional)
Windows XP
*4
CPU When writing to CD-R/RW: Pentium 166 MHz or higher processors (when
JustLink is used).
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When playing DVD: Pentium II 350 MHz or higher processor is required (or, if a
graphic chip with DVD playback enhancement capability is used, Pentium II 300
MHz or higher processor is required).
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When writing to DVD+RW/+R: Pentium II 400 MHz or higher processor (Pentium
III 800 MHz processor or higher recommended)
*5
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Memory Writing to CD-R/RW: 64 MB or more
DVD playback: 64 MB or more
Writing to DVD+RW/+R: 128 MB or more (256 MB recommended)
Hard disk When writing to CD-R/RW: 100 MB or more free space
When writing to DVD+RW/+R: 750 MB or more free space (5 GB or more
recommended
*6
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Interface Must be Enhanced-IDE compatible. In addition, its Primary Slave, Secondary Master,
or Secondary Slave must be blank.
Drive bay The system unit must have a blank 5.25-inch bay.
Power The computer system unit must have a blank +5V/+12V power terminal.
Recommendation discs
*2
Recommendation Tested to be compatible
CD-R Ricoh
Taiyo Yuden, Mitsui Chemicals, Mitsubishi
Chemical, Maxell
CD-RW Ricoh
Mitsubishi Chemical
*1
High Speed CD-RW Ricoh Mitsubishi Chemical
DVD+RW
*3
Ricoh Mitsubishi Chemical
DVD+R Ricoh
*1 The disc written using the CD-R/RW drive may not be readable by CD-ROM drives.
Multi-read compatible (Random UDF compatible) drives are necessary.
*2
Even if it is the recommendation disc, some of discs may have possibility to fail
writing with highest writing speed with the problem on the disc. In this case, please
try to write with lower writing speed, or please try to use another disc.
*3 Ricoh's original phase-change recording material which is field-proven for CD-RW is being
used after being customized for DVD use. Rewritable DVD+RW having the capacity of 4.7
GB, the same as DVD-ROM.
*4 For information on Windows XP supports, visit Ricoh's Web site
*5 Recommended when Direct-to-DVD capability is being used.
*6 Real-time recording (Pentium 4 1.4 GHz processor is recommended when Direct-to-DVD
capability is used). In addition, a video-capture board for image-capturing and the like must
be obtained separately.
Multi-read compatible (Random UDF compatible) drives are:
Drives that can read low reflectivity discs.●
Drives that support Packet Write.●