Creative GCD-R542B manual Knowing Your CD-ROM Drive

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Knowing Your CD-ROM Drive

Your CD-ROM drive is just like a CD player. It allows you to play audio CDs, skip and stop a track, and eject the CD using software application (see Chapter 3, “Using QuickCD”).

Furthermore, your drive supports the following features:

❑Quad Speed Transfer

Your drive can supply a continuous stream of information at 600 KB per second to the PC’s bus. This higher transfer rate produces better performance when viewing Video for Windows or QuickTime movies and multimedia applications.

❑CD-ROM Standards

Your drive meets the MPC level 2 requirements for CD-ROM. It also enables you to read CD-ROM/XA (Extended Architecture) — a specification that allows you to interleave data, audio, and video sectors on a CD.

❑Motorized Tray Loading System

Your drive comes with a motorized tray loading system which allows you to load your CDs like a CD player.

❑Multiple Drives Support

You can connect more than one CD-ROM drive to your PC. For more information on connecting additional drives, refer to the section “Connecting Additional Drives” in Chapter 4.

The rest of this chapter describes the components of your drive’s front and rear panels.

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