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1.0. General:
1.1. Difference between the Demo, Personal, and Full featured versions.
HyCD Publisher can be run in demo mode or in licensed mode.
Demo Mode:
You can run HyCD Publisher in demo mode by selecting the "Demo" button when the software is first started. Try out all the features in HyCD Publisher including creating Hybrid
CD-ROM for PC, Mac, and UNIX. The only
limitation you have is that you can only create CD-ROM images less than 5 MB in size.
Register Now, Register Later:
Press the appropriate button to indicate your choice. To obtain technical support, you must have already registered your software.
If you wish to register now, follow the instructions below to run the software in Licensed Mode.
Licensed Mode:
You can run HyCD Publisher in licensed mode by selecting the "Register"
button when the software is first started.
A Window will pop up for you to fill in your name, address, telephone number, and software registration code. The registration code is located on the inside cover of the CD case.
Press the "License Request" button and generate a License Request File.
E-mail the License Request file to "license@cHyCD.com" or fax the printout to (408) 255-1011.
After
requesting a license and obtaining a password, HyCD Publisher will be activated in the following modes: Personal or Full Featured Professional versions.
You can find out what version you have by selecting "Help/About..." in the Main Menu.
1.2. Run HyCD Publisher on different platforms.
Each license an end-user obtains is for a specific platform, i.e.
Windows, Windows NT, Windows 95, SunOS, Solaris, SGI.
The platform is determined when you install the software and register under a specified platform.
To run HyCD Publisher on a new platform, i.e.
upgrading from the Windows 3.1 to Windows 95 version, please contact CDR to purchase an Upgrade.
To run HyCD Publisher on additional platforms, i.e. running both on Windows 3.1 and Windows 95 or running on
multiple machines, please contact CDR to purchase additional licenses.
1.3. Run HyCD Publisher on different machines on the same platform.
If you only have one license (you purchased a single copy), you should install the software on one computer and use it.
If you have reinstalled the OS, or need to reinstall the software or move the license onto another system:
A. Destroy the old copy on the old system.
B. Install the software onto the new system.
C. Use the same Registration Code to run the Register Program again.
D. E-mail the License Request Form to CDR.
E. Creative Digital Research will update its database and issue a new password to you.
F. When you have obtained a new Password from CDR, type in the new Password and activate HyCD Publisher on the new system.
1.4. Expected turn around time for a license.
E-mail: within 15 minutes after e-mail reaches CDR.
Fax: 24 hours during normal business hours.
1.5. I have sent my e-mail license request but did not get a reply.
Please check your "From" field on the e-mail that you've sent. It is possible that the mail is undeliverable
because of the wrong return address.
1.6. Check list for debugging installation problems for PC versions.
A. Always download the latest version/patch of HyCD Publisher fro our web site: http://www.HyCD.com
B. Using Adaptec, Advansys, or PE Logic SCSI Controller Card or 100% compatible SCSI Controller Card.
C. Enabled SCSI "Connect and Disconnect" and "Sync" features on
the SCSI Controller Card.
D. Update your WinASPI or WinASPI32 driver from from your SCSI card vendor.
E. In the Main Window, Configure/Hardware/Source and Destination windows are configured to match
your hardware devices.
F. In Main Window, Configure/Hardware/Destination/CD Recorder/Optimize Window: Press the "Default" button to set everything to default.
G. Make sure you
have more available disk space than your Virtual Memory setting.
To reset Virtual Memory:
For Windows 3.11:
Please run Control Panel/386 Enhanced/Virtual Memory,
set it to None. Exit Windows.
Run Scandisk and defrag.
Restart Windows, run Control Panel/386 Enhanced/Virtual Memory,
and set Permanent > 20 MB on a hard disk with at least that
amount of space.
For Windows 95:
Press Start/Settings/Control Panel/System/Performance/Virtual Memory.
Select "Let windows manage my virtual memory settings.
H. To test
communication between the CD-ROM Recorder and the System, turn on "Virtual Write" in the Recorder setting window.
1.7. Check list for debugging installation problems for UNIX versions.
A. Always download the latest version/patch of HyCD Publisher from our web site: http://www.HyCD.com
B. Make sure the driver is loaded by running the installation script for install.
To reload the driver, run "cdrdrv.load" command.
C. We recommend that you use a Virtual Disk if
you are running HyCD Publisher in a multi-user, multi-process environment to prevent Data under-run.
D. If you are using Virtual disk, make sure the recording device file is Writable.
SunOS:
Virtual Disk is SCSI ID 2, Partition b
% chmod 777 /dev/sd2b
Solaris:
Virtual Disk is SCSI ID 2, Partition 1
% ls -l /dev/rdsk/c0t2d0s1
You will get:
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 55 Feb 22 18:48 c0t2d0s1 -> ../../devices/sbus@1,f8000000/esp@0,800000/sd@2,0:b,raw*
Chmod on the raw device:
% chmod 777 "../../devices/sbus@1,f8000000/esp@0,800000/sd@2,0:b,raw"
SGI:
Method #1: Use an entire hard disk as Virtual Disk
Benifit: May be able to mount back and test the Image.
% chmod 777 /dev/scsi/*
Select the Virtual Disk as your destination in the Main Window.
Method #2: Use a partition of a hard disk as Virtual Disk
Drawback : Not able to mount back and test the Image.
% chmod 777 /dev/rdsk/dks0d20s1
Select the Image File as your destination in the Main Window.
Set the raw device file as your file name.
E. Make sure your Virtual Disk or Image File resides on the local
system. If your source files reside on another system, you should definitely use a local hard disk drive as a Virtual Disk or Image File to store your CD-ROM Image before you output it to the CD
Recorder.
F. Source "cdrenv" before you start. For convenience, place the content of cdrenv into your .cshrc file.
G. Always run HyCD Publisher in a writable directory, i.e. /tmp. If you do
not, you will see "Error" and empty Log Window.
H. To test communication between the CD-ROM Recorder and the System, turn on "Virtual Write" in the Recorder setting window.
I. For
Sun running Solaris operating system, do not use /tmp as a place to store Image Files. /tmp is generally too slow because it is on a swap partition.
J. Make sure you are in a writable directory when you
start cdrpub. If not, you will see empty Error Log Window.
1.8. Various Features of the Recorders and HyCD Publisher
You can find out various features of the CD-ROM recorders and what HyCD Publisher supports by selecting the Help/CD Device
Features menu item in the Main Window.
1.9. Run HyCD Publisher on Windows 95.
Currently all the Windows 3.1, Windows for Workgroups, Windows NT and Windows 95 versions are designed and optimized for the individual
platforms.
Please run the individual binaries on the specified platform.
Update all your drivers when you download the updated Windows 95 version.
1.10. Preserving long file names in Windows 95 and Windows NT.
Both Windows95 and NT 4.0's CD-ROM driver do support longer filenames, but NT 3.51's CD-ROM driver does not.
To create a CD that is able to be read
in all environments, you must select PC format with ISO Level 1, File/Dir Name not enforced, include ";1", and Joliet File System for Windows 95.
With CD created by process described above, you will
see NT 3.51 "display" all files in DOS type file names, but you can access all the files. You will see Windows 95 and NT 4.0 display with both upper and lower case and you can also access all the files.
1.11. Driver conflict with other CD Recording Software.
If you are using device drivers from other CD-ROM Recording software;
i.e. Incat Systems' EASYCDMS driver, comment it out.
For example change:
DEVICE=C:\ECDMM\EASYCDMS.SYS /D:CDWO
to
REM DEVICE=C:\ECDMM\EASYCDMS.SYS /D:CDWO
1.12. Important Note for all UNIX user.
Many of
the newer CD recorders are built and configured as CD readers for the PC environment. Since Sun and SGI Kernel currently does not support any CD recorder as a reader, you must follow these steps described
below or you will find:
On SGI: media daemon complains and systems gets SCSI resets.
On SUN: volume manager complains and you will get fixate problem when
you record to CD.
To by-pass this problem, you must:
1.Boot your system with the CD-R connected but "turned-off".
2.After boot, turn-on the recorder before you start the publisher.
This way, you have "fooled" the OS that you do not have a CD reader.
3.With the CD recorder, you can record and read (extract audio or data) via our software.
You can not use it on the OS as a standard CD reader because the OS does not support it.
We have reported to Sun and SGI this problem. They now know about this problem and they have said that they will fix it in
the future release.
1.13. Create New Directory inside HyCD.
Currently, our GUI allow you to select original directories to be included into HyCD. It does not allow you to create
new directories inside the HyCD. We will add this feature into our future release of HyCD Publisher.
1.14. Created unmountable CDs.
If you have created a CD that is unable to mount on any systems,
it is possible that you have performed a Virtual Write operation and did not actually record to the CD. Please check to see if you have performed a Virtual Write operation. Turn off the Virtual Write function in the Hardware Configuration Window and perform a Physical Write.
If you are have performed a physical write function, please try to mount the CD back from a different system with a different reader.
It is possible that there exists an incompatability between the CD-R media, the Recorder, and the CD Reader. Please call your CD-ROM Recorder company for a list of recommended CD-R media.
1.15. Using Advansys's SCSI controler.
Advansys SCSI
controller have been tested with the latest versions of CDR products. Please make sure you've downloaded the latest drivers from Advansys.
2.0. Developer's Kit: Command Line interface to HyCD Publisher:
2.1. Integrating CDR's HyCD Engine into your application.
You can use the Command Line interface to CDR's HyCD Engine and integrate its CD recording capabilities into your existing application.
The Developers Kit contains information on how to do it.
Download the Developer's Kit for FREE from our web site at: http:/www.HyCD.com
3.0. Virtual Disks, Image Files:
3.1. Create multiple CD images and store them on a hard disk.
You can create multiple Image Files residing on a formatted file system. If you are using a UNIX system, you can create multiple images and output to the
raw partitions of the device files. i.e. /dev/rdsk/....
3.2. Mounting the Virtual Disk Back as a CD-ROM.
You can follow the instructions described on Page 83 of the manual.
We have found that some hard disks are not
capable of being used as a Virtual Disk on the SGI Platform. This is due to the limitation that the hard disk is unable to "fool" the CD-ROM Reader driver into treating a hard disk
as a CD
reader. Creative Digital Research has reported this limitation to Silicon Graphics and is trying to find a work around.
3.3. Use a partition of the hard disk drive as a virtual disk.
With
UNIX systems, a Virtual Disk can be a partition of a hard disk. You can select the source/destination to be an Image File and read/write the CD-ROM image to a raw device file name:
SunOS: /dev/rsdxx
Solaris: /dev/rdsk/cxtxdxsx
SGI: /dev/rdsk/dksxdxsx
With PC systems, Virtual Disk must be a entire hard disk. It cannot be a partition of a hard disk. If you currently have a
large drive, you can use Image File instead. To increase the disk accessing performance, defrag the Hard Disk.
4.0. Hybrid CDs:
4.1. Mounting Hard Disk as a PC Exchange Disk onto the Mac system.
You can first format the hard disk drive from the PC. Take it to a Macintosh system and mount it back as a PC Exchange Disk; see page 74 of Manual.
We have found that some hard disks are not capable of being used as a PC Exchange disk.
This is due to the limitation of the Macintosh PC Exchange driver. Some users of HyCD Publisher have successfully used
SCSI based ZIP or SYQUEST drives to move data across. You may wish to try to do
so.
4.2. Retaining NT long file names.
Windows NT 4.0
does support the Joliet file system which supports long file names. You may use the current version and create a CD that retain NT 4.0 long file names.
4.3. Retaining Mac long file names.
Please note that DOS path names are restricted to 64 bytes.
For example:
C:\path1\path2\...\pathN\file_name.ext
^ ^
|-- Max Length <= 64 --|
If your Macintosh files has long path names, please reduce it before you copy it to a PC Exchange Disk.
4.4. Selecting Files to be included into the HyCD.
When you
select the files to be included into the HyCD, you can use 'Add All' to add all the files and directories in the PC Exchange Disk into HyCD.
If you only wish to add some individual files, you must
select both the file (fn.ext) and its resource fork (fn.frk) to be included into HyCD.
5.0. Music CDs:
5.1. Control the gaps between audio tracks.
Current with all the recorders we support, we use Track At Once to record the
audio tracks. The 2 second gap is automatically recorded by the CD recorder.
As we are enhancing the program, we will begin to support Disc At Once Recording.
This will enable you to control the PQ channel and have better control of the post gap.
Please look at Help/CD Device Features for a description of these features.
6.0 SGI EFS CDs:
6.1 Building SGI EFS CDs.
Follow the instructions written in the manual P.101. Make sure you also "Preserve 0-15 block".
7.0 Bootable CDs:
7.1 Obtaining a floppy bootable image or IDE hard disk bootable image.
In the manual we describe how you can extract a SCSI bootable image by using Source=Virtual Disk, Destination=Image File, Create Image.
The
following describes how you can extract a bootable image from a floppy disk. The same procedure can be used to extract bootable IDE hard disk drive.
1. Run Norton Disk Edit program.
The editor will come up and read your primary hard drive.
2. Open Object menu and select a: then select physical.
3. Select all sectors of the A: drive:
Open edit menu and select mark. then press 'end' key to select all of
drive A:
4: Open the tools menu and select write to file.
5. Name the file with the extension of '.img'
Use this file as your boot file of floppy disk image.
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