The Drive’s Front Panel

This section describes the various controls on your drive’s front panel as shown in Figure 1-1.

Figure 1-1: The front panel of your CD-ROM drive.

Stereo Phone Jack

The Stereo Phone Jack allows you to connect a pair of earphones to the drive. It also allows you to connect a pair of powered speakers. If you are connecting a pair of speakers to your drive, make sure that you switch on the speakers.

Volume Control

The Volume Control allows you to adjust the volume of your earphones or powered speakers connected to the front panel Stereo Phone Jack. This control has no effect on the audio output from devices (such as speakers) connected to your audio card.

Busy Indicator

The Busy Indicator lights up whenever your drive is reading data from your disc.

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Creative GCD-R542B manual Drive’s Front Panel, Stereo Phone Jack, Volume Control, Busy Indicator