Toshiba External SuperMulti Drive: General Use

User’s Manual

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TOSHIBA External SuperMulti Drive

Windows Vista

1. Click 

Start

 - 

Control Panel

 - 

System and Maintenance

 - 

System

 - 

Device Manager

.

2. Check the information. If a yellow “exclamation point” appears next to 

Universal Serial Bus Controller, contact the card or PC manufacturer. 

Confirming the Installation of the Device Driver

Confirming Use [Device Manager]

Windows XP

1. Go to 

Start

 - 

Control Panel

 - 

Performance and Maintenance

.

2. Click the 

System

 icon in the “Performance and Maintenance” window.

3. Select the 

Hardware

 tab in the “System Properties” window.

4. Click the 

Device Manager

 button. In the “Device Manager” window, 

the name of the External SuperMulti Drive appears under “DVD/CD-

ROM drives” if the driver is installed properly.

Windows Vista

1. Click 

Start

 - 

Control Panel

 - 

System and Maintenance

 - 

System

 - 

Device Manager

.

2. In the “Device Manager” window, the name of the External SuperMulti 

Drive appears under “DVD/CD-ROM drives” if the driver is installed 

properly. 

General Use

How to Use the Drive

When the LED is Orange, do not turn the PC off or remove the External 

SuperMulti Drive as it may cause damage to the drive.

How to Use a Horizontally Installed Drive

You can use 8cm or 12cm (3.15 Inch or 4.72 Inch) discs. 

The drive cannot read the disc properly if any part of the disc is placed 

outside the tray guidelines.

Do not use the external SuperMulti drive vertically.

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User’s Manual

TOSHIBA External SuperMulti Drive

How to Use DVD±R/RW and Other Discs

The External SuperMulti Drive allows writing DVD±R/RW discs using 

Burn Now in Windows XP/Vista. The CD we provide does not include any 

data writing application for Linux OS. We recommend that you use 

“Brasero” for data writing in Linux. TOSHIBA cannot guarantee this 

software. You can download it from the following website: 

http://projects.gnome.org/brasero.

You can use the External SuperMulti Drive to playback music CDs, CD-

ROM, CD-R/RW, or DVD-ROM discs, like a CD-ROM drive or a DVD-

ROM drive. If your computer recognizes the [CD-ROM] icon designated to 

the External SuperMulti Drive as the ‘E:’ drive, insert a CD-ROM or a 

DVD-ROM disc and access the ‘E:’ drive. 

If you want to use this product to play a commercial DVD-Video title 

(“DVD title’)

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Most of DVD titles on the market use the Dolby sound system.

You are required to install software that supports Dolby decoding on 

your PC before you can play a DVD title using the drive purchased.

Unauthorized copying of DVDs or software titles is illegal 

and the individuals that make illegal copies will be held 

responsible for any copyright infringement. 

Using low-quality discs may lengthen the recording time 

or may not be supported due to reduction in double 

speed. 

DVD Region Protection Coding (RPC) 

The RPC feature is supported on DVD players and is used with DVD-

video discs (such as movies). Currently, the motion picture industry has 

divided the world into different regions or zones that correspond to the 

regional markets into which the motion picture industry releases 

movies. Simply put, RPC codes are placed on movies marketed 

throughout the world, based on the region of the world in which they are 

being sold. These RPC codes help control and prevent pirating of new 

movies into other motion picture regions prior to their true release dates 

within those markets.

The External SuperMulti Drive supports RPC phase II. In the RPC-2 

mode, the local code can be changed by users. RPC-2 is selected by 

default for the External SuperMulti Drive.

You can change the region code up to five times via an MPEG 

application.

Please contact your dealer or local TOSHIBA representative if you wish 

to change the local code more than five times. 

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