vDisc at Once:The drive writes to the entire disc in a single pass; data cannot
be added at a later time.
vTrackat Once: The drive copies one track at a time to the disc.
vMultisession: The drive writes several sessions to a disc; each session has at
least one track.
Listed below are descriptions of different CD formats that appear in the table.
CD-Digital Audio: This format records audio CDs that can be played on audio
CD players.
CD Extra:This format records audio and data in a multisession format.
CD TEXT:This format records audio CDs with the album names and song
titles encoded.
CD-ROM (Mode 1): This format is used for most CD-ROM applications.
CD-ROM XA (Mode 2 Form 1 and Mode 2 Form 2) or CD-ROM Extended
Architecture:This standard was created for playback of multimedia content.
CD-I (Mode 2 Form 1 and Mode 2 Form 2) and CD-I Ready
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:This format is
used for home entertainment systems.
CD-I Bridge:This format records a combination of Kodak Photo CDs and
VideoCDs that can be played on TV set-top players and personal computers.
Photo CD (single and multisession):This format records CDs that areplayable
on TV set-top video CD players and most DVD systems.
7. The CD-RW drive does not have the necessary audio circuitry and decoding functions for CD-I
playback,but it can be read from and write to CDs in this format.
A-4 12x8x32Internal IDE CD-RW Drive: User’s Guide