INTRODUCTION1
Congratulations! You have just made a very important upgrade for your PC. With your new Philips 10X or 12X CD-ROM drive, you can now take advantage of the vast host of multimedia software available today at a higher performance than ever. Whether you are interested in the Encyclopedia Britanica, educational games, using your computer as a digital music studio or composing a business presentation with sound, graphics and animation, your new CD-ROM drive will be the tool to efficiently and effectively get all that information into your computer.
1.1 Features
This CD-ROM drive has the following key features:
IDE/ATAPI interface
Access time at 170 ms for PCA103CD and 150 ms for PCA123CD
Data transfer rate at 1,500 KB/sec for PCA103CD and 1800 KB/sec for PCA123CD
Built in 256 KB buffer
Special design to ensure maximum readability of low-quality CDs
Motorized tray for loading and unloading CDs
Fits into a standard 5.25 inch half-height PC disk drive bay
Manual ejection groove for emergency disc tray eject
Automatic power-saving feature
Compatibility with the following disc formats: Audio-CD, Video-CD, CD-ROM/XA, CD-i/FMV (CD-i
