U-Reach V5.30 User manual

DVD/Blu-ray
Duplicator
User Guide
V5.30
www.ureach-inc.com
the Expert of Duplicators

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Content Index
9-8. Format HDD 24
9-9. Load & Copy 24
Chapter 3. Specification
Chapter 4. Appendix
Lightscribe Operation 26
Error Message 30
Chapter 1. Basic Introduction
1. Features 3
2. System Overview 4
2-1. Package Content 4
2-2. Other components necessary for
assembling the Duplicator 4
2-3. SATA controller hardware Installation
guide 5
Chapter 2. Function Operation
Function Table-CD/DVD/BD Duplicator
1. Copy 9
2. Test 10
3. Compare 10
4. Copy + Compare 11
5. Set Burn Speed 12
6. Select Source 12
7. Utility 13
7-1. Information 13
7-2. Erase Disc 14
7-3. PreScan Source 15
7-4. Track Edit 16
7-5. Eject All Disc 16
7-6. Copy Counter 16
7-7. Update BIOS 17
7-8. PRINT LS Label 17
8. Setup 18
8-1. Auto Start Time 18
8-2. Display Mode 18
8-3. Button Beep 19
8-4. Eject On Start 19
8-5. Reader Speed 19
8-6. Compare Speed 19
8-7. Language 19
8-8. Clear Setup 19
8-9. Advanced Setup 19
9. HDD Manager (For HDD-installed duplicator) 21
9-1. Select Image 21
9-2. Disc to Image 21
9-3. Set Reader Speed 22
9-4. Show Image Info. 22
9-5. Rename Image 22
9-6. Delete Image 23
9-7. Show HDD Info. 23

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Chapter 1. Basic Introduction
1. Features
●No PC needed. Independent SATA to SATA DVD / Blu-ray Disc Duplication.
●Sepcial Ssynchronous Load and Copy technology. When the system was installed
with HDD, the system will load master source disc to HDD while copying disc to
disc. In 2nd run copy, the system will automatically copy from HDD instead of from
the source reader.
●Support high speed 20×DVD, 52×CD, 8×Blu-ray burning.
●High compatibility with variety brands of burner.
●Easy assembly SATA port arrangement
●Support Lightscribe printing

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Chapter 1. Basic Introduction
2. System Overview
2-1. Package Content
2-2. Other components necessary for assembling the Duplicators
HDD CD/DVD-ROM CD/DVD-RW
Writer
User Manual
SATA Cables(180˚)Controller
OK
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User Manual

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2-3. SATA Controller Hardware Installation Cuide
Example: 1-7 installed
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Chapter 2. Function Operation
Function Sub-function Description
1. Copy To copy disc to disc or copy disc from HDD.
2. Test To simulate copy process
3. Compare To bit by bit compare between source disc and copied discs
4. Copy & Compare To copy first and compare the copied discs later. To ensure data
correctness.
5. Set Burn Speed To set burning speed for duplication.
6. Select Source To select source from any optical drive or hard disk drive.
7. Utility
1. Information
1. Disc Info. To check the format of disc, burning speed supported and total capacity
or data size.
2. Drive Info. To check the version, model No. and brand name
3. System Info. To check the model No. and firmware version
2. Erase Disc
1. Quick Erase To quick erase data from rewritable disc.
2. Full Erase To full erase data from rewritable disc.
3. PreScan Source To check source disc’s readability.
4. Track Edit
1. Copy Track To select and combine audio tracks from various CDs into a single
customized audio CD.
2. Close Disc To close the disc after track copying to make the CD playable on CD
player.
3. Disc Info. To check the audio CD’s status of usage.
5. Eject All Disc To eject all trays.
6. Copy Counter
1. Show Count To check how many discs copy successfully and failed.
2. Enable Counter To enable or disable counter setting.
3. Clear Counter To delete the record.
7. Update BIOS To update the system’s firmware.
8. PRINT LS Label To print Lightscribe image.
Function Table-CD/DVD/BD Duplication

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8. Setup
1. Auto Start Time Allow the system to do the Copy, Test, Compare and Copy + Compare
functions automatically
2. Display Mode
1. Basic
2. Show Timer
3. Show Speed
3. Button Beep
4. Eject On Start
1. Eject All Discs To eject all trays with disc inside once the system is booted up.
2. Do Not Eject No eject any tray or disc once the system is booted up.
3. Eject Target Only Only eject target trays with disc inside once the system is booted up.
4. Eject Source Only Only eject source disc once the system is booted up.
5. Eject All Trays To eject all trays once the system is booted up.
5. Reader Speed To adjust the reading speed of source drive.
6. Compare Speed To adjust the speed of drives while comparing.
7. Language
8. Clear Setup To reset all the function back to manufacturer’s default setting.
9. Advanced Setup
1. Power On Time To set a warm-up time from 5 seconds to 99 seconds
2. Startup Menu To select which function you would like to show up in the beginning
3. Skip Reader Error To set skip the read error and keep copying.
4. Change Bad
Master
To make the system eject source disc and ask for another one while
the source disc is unreadable for system.
5. CD Overburn Set to copy overburn CD.
6. Show HDD
Image Name
To show HDD image name or capacity on Copy, Test, Copy + Compare
and Compare function
7. Keep Buffer To set enable or disable load source to the buffer.
8. Boot Password To enable or disable the user administrative password.
9. Setup Password To set up the login password
10. Count Password To set up counter login password.
9. HDD Manager
1. Select Image To select image file from HDD as your source for copy.
2. Disc=> Image To load your source disc to the built-in HDD.
3. Set Reader Speed To adjust the speed of source reader while you load image file from the
reader to HDD.
4. Show Image Info. To check the disc format and data size of image file
5. Rename Image To change the name of image file
6. Delete Image To delete image file in the built-in HDD
7. Show HDD Info. To check the information of the built-in HDD includes how many discs
are stored and the free space is available
8. Format HDD To format the built-in HDD
9. Load & Copy
1. Load First To load the source to HDD and make copy at the same time.
2. Synchronous To load source to HDD first and copy from HDD to disc.
3. OFF To disable Load & Copy function.

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1. Copy
It is important to make sure that your source disc is placed in the right drive. You can check or
select your source reader by 6.Select Source. (plase refer to 6.Select Source, page 11)
1. Select 1.Copy and place source disc and blank discs into the proper trays. Then the system
will detect the source disc and show the information.
2. Press to start copy
3. Once the copy task is finished, the copied discs will be ejected and the result of copy task
will show on the LCD:
If HDD is selected to be the source reader, you have to upload the source to the built-in
HDD and then follow copy process to do your copy task. How to upload data from disc to
HDD please refer to 9-2.Disc to Image, page 21.
Data size
Copied data size
Speed of burning
Copy process %
Q'ty of target
**Note:
Due to default setting of auto start time, the duplicator will start to copy automatically
within a few seconds. You can set “OFF” to close the auto start function or set a longer
waiting time. The default setting is 5 seconds. (About this setting please refer to 8-1.
Auto Start Time, page 17 )
Elapsed time
Data size
Q'ty of target disc
**Note:
The default setting of source reader is the first drive.

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2. Test
This function will simulate the copy process to ensure error free duplication. During the
simulation, it will be nothing left in the recordable discs.
1. Using / to select 2.Test and press .
2. Press to start test
3. Once the test task is finished, the discs will be ejected and the result of the pass and fail
discs for the test task will show on the LCD:
3. Compare
This function will do bit-by-bit comparison between source disc and copied discs to ensure the
copied discs are identical to source disc.
1. Place source disc and blank discs into Reader and Writer separately.
2. Using / to select 3.Compare and press to start compare.
**Note:
1This function is unable to support DVD+R blank disc.
2 If you use CD/DVD rewritable discs as your blank media in the simulation, all the
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3. The system will detect the source and target discs automatically.
4. After detecting, the system will start to compare.
5. When the comparison has finished, the system will show the compare result.
4. Copy + Compare
This function will to do copy task first and execute comparison automatically when copy process
has been finished.
**Note:
In Copy, Test, Compare and Copy+Compare functions
1If there is no source and target discs inside the duplicator, there will be nothing
show on LCD.
2 If the built-in HDD is selected as source, the information presents different:
3 The information display of these 4 functions will be different based on the
display mode you selected.
(Plase refer to 8-2.Display mode, page 17)
Image file name

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5. Set Burn Speed
You can adjust the burning speed of CD/Audio CD/DVD/DVD DL/Blu-ray by this setting. The
default setting of CD is 40X, Audio CD 24X, DVD 8X, DVD DL 2X and Blu-ray 2X.
1. Using / to select 5.Set Burn Speed and press .
2. Pressing / to adjust the burning speed of CD and press to confirm it, or press
to select Audio CD,DVD, DVD DL or Blu-ray to adjust the burning speed.
6. Select Source
You can set any drive or built-in HDD in the duplicator to be your source reader.
1. Using / to select 6.Select Source
2. Press to check the current source reader, or select the proper drive to be the source
reader by pressing / , once the source reader is selected, press to confirm the
setting and back to the menu list.
**Note:
The default setting of source reader is the first drive.

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7. Utility
7-1. Information
You can check the information of disc, drive and system by this function. By pressing / ,
each disc or drive’s information will show on the LCD.
1. Using / to select 7.Utility, press to enter the sub menu. Then, select
1.Information and press .
2. Using / to select 1.Disc Info. or 2.Drive Info or 3.System Info., and press to see
the related information.
3. The information will show on the LCD as below:
●Disc Info.: You can check the format of disc, burning speed supported and total
capacity. If the disc has data inside, you also can check the size of data.
●Drive Info.:
1. HDD:you can press the button ,to check your HDD Brand&Model name.
2. Drive:The version,model No.and brand name can be checked here.
Burning Speed
Capacity/Data size
Disc Format
Drive version
Brand name

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OR
●System Info.: The model No. and firmware version can be checked here.
7-2. Erase Disc
This function will erase the rewritable discs in WRITER tray, there are two erase modes available:
●Quick Erase: It will erase the INDEX of the rewritable disc.
●Full Erase: It will erase ALL DATA in the rewritable disc, which takes longer time than Quick
Erase.
1. Place discs into writers.
2. Using / to select 7.Utility and press to enter the sub menu. Then, select 2.Erase
and press .
3. Using / to select 1.Quick Erase. or 2.Full Erase.
4. Pressing to execute the erasing task. When the system is detecting the discs, you will
see the colon flashing.
5. When the erase job is in process, you should see the O and o are blinking by turns.
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6. Once the erase task has finished, the O stop blinking, the disc will be ejected automatically.
7-3. PreScan Source
This function will scan and detect any bad sectors existing in the source disc, which helps you
to ensure the readability of source disc.
1. Place a source disc into reader.
2. Using / to select 7.Utility and press to enter the sub menu. Then, select
3.Prescan Source and press to start scan task.
3. When prescan task is in process, you can see the process on the display:
4. When the prescan task has finished, the result of prescan will be shown on the LCD.
**Note:
1If you see F and f are blinking by turns, which means the whole new DVD+RW is in
format process.
2Erase function only support rewritable discs.
Data size
Scanned data size
Elapsed time
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7-4. Track Edit
This function enables you to combine audio tracks from various CDs into a single customize
audio CD.
●Copy Track: You can select and combine audio tracks from different CDs in this section.
●Close Disc: You have to perform this function after copy track to make the CD playable on
CD player.
●Disc Info.: You can check the audio CD’s status of usage.
7-5. Eject All Disc
You can eject all discs including source and target discs at the same time by this function.
7-6. Copy Counter
This function will record the result of duplication.
●Show Count: You can check how many discs copy successful and failed.
●Enable Counter: You can set the counter enable or disable to record the copy result.
●Clear Counter: You can delete the record by this function.
1. Using / to select 7.Utility and press to enter the sub menu. Then, select 6.Copy
Counter and press .
2. Using / to select 1.Show Count.
3. Pressing to check the calculation of successful and failed duplication for CD and DVD
Q'ty of passed CD
Q'ty of failed CD

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7-7. Update BIOS
You can update the system’s firmware in this function.
1. Place manufacturer certified update file CD into any drive
2. Pressing / to select 7.Utility and sub menu 7.Update BIOS and then press to
start the process.
3. The system will detect the update file and execute update task automatically.
4. Once the update job has done, the system will require you to reboot the system.
7-8. PRINT LS Label
This function will let you using the Lightscribe technology to print your own image on discs.
The operation process please refer to Appendix Lightscribe Operation.
**Note:
Do NOT save the firmware in a folder. The system can not detect the file if you save it in
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8. Setup
8-1. Auto Start Time
This setting will allow the system to do the Copy, Test, Compare and Copy + Compare functions
automatically in a few seconds once the source and blank discs are placed in the trays and
detected by the system. The default setting is 5 seconds. You can set a longer/shorter time from
1 to 99 seconds or set OFF to disable this function and execute copy task by manual.
1. Pressing / to select 8.Setup and sub menu 1.Auto Start Time.
2. Pressing / to set the time.
8-2. Display Mode
You can select the prefered display mode in Copy, Test, Compare, Copy+Compare.
●Basic: It will only show the copy process (%) on LCD.
●Show Timer: It will show the time for copy.
●Show Speed: It will show the speed of burning during copy process.
Speed of burning
Elapsed time
Data size
Q'ty of target
Copied sizeCopy process %

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8-3. Button Beep
This setting will allow you to set up to hear a beep when a button is pressed or not.
8-4. Eject On Start
You can make the trays or discs eject once the system is booted up.
●Eject All Discs: To eject all trays with disc inside once the system is booted up.
●Do Not Eject: No eject any tray or disc once the system is booted up.
●Eject Target Only: Only eject target trays with disc inside once the system is booted up.
●Eject Source Only: Only eject source disc once the system is booted up.
●Eject All Trays: To eject all trays once the system is booted up.
8-5. Reader Speed
This setting allows you to adjust the reading speed of source drive. The default setting of reader
speed of CD is 40X; DVD is 24X.
8-6. Compare Speed
The reading speed of drive and disc are the reasons can affect the quality of comparison. This
setting allows you to adjust the reading speed of drives to match up the reading speed of discs.
The default setting of CD’s compare speed is 40X, DVD is 8X.
8-7. Language
You can set a proper language for interface during operation.
8-8. Clear Setup
This setting will reset all the function back to manufacturer’s default setting.
8-9. Advanced Setup
●Power On Time: You can set a warm-up time from 5 to 99 seconds for warming up the
duplicator when it is turned on. The default setting is 10 seconds.
●Start-up Menu: You can select which function you would like to show up in the beginning.
●Skip Read Error: You can set this function enable to skip disc errors in order to avoid bad
quality of copy. If you are confident of your source disc has only a small and insignificant
error due to physical damages and can be overlooked, you can set NO to disable this
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●Change Bad Master: This setting will make the system eject source disc and ask for another
one while the source disc is unreadable for system.
●CD Overburn: The majority of discs have a small margin of extra groove at the outer edge.
This setting allows you to copy data over the normal size limit.
●Show HDD Image Name: You can select to show HDD image name or capacity on Copy,
Test, Copy + Compare and Compare function.
●Keep Buffer: You can set Yes to load source disc to buffer in first round of Copy, Test,
Compare or Copy+Compare, and do it again without the source disc. Or you can set No to
keep buffer not be used.
●Boot Password: This setting allows you to enable or disable the user administrative
password. Users have to login when the system is booted on.
●Setup Password: You can set up password by pressing / to select the number you
like and press to set next number.
●Count Password: You can select the disable/Enable mode and Count your login password.
**Note:
Skip Read Error can not fix the error in the source disc, all it does is skipping the errors
and keeps copying the rest of readable data.
Show HDD Image Name: Show capacity:
**Note:
The source will be only temporary saved in buffer, there will be nothing left when you exit
the task (Copy, Test, Compare and Copy+Compare or reboot the system.
**Note:
When you change the source from drive to HDD, the LCD will show the HDD information.
How to change your source reader please refer to 6.Select Source, page 11.