THE SYSTEM DRIVES

4.The system should now be able to access the disk and the information it may contain. While the system is accessing the disk, the “drive in use” LED should be lit.

Pressing the button, when the drive is not in use, will eject the floppy disk.

Using a CD-ROM drive

Unless either a second hard drive has been installed, or the existing hard drive has been given more than one partition then the CD- ROM drive is usually drive D:.

There has recently been a vast increase in the amount of multimedia software supplied on CD format due to its large capacity, typically 600 Mbytes plus.

With the appropriate software, a CD-ROM drive can retrieve multimedia data from CD-ROM discs, pictures from Multisession Photo-CD discs and also play commercial audio CDs.

DISC DRAWER

HEADPHONE JACK

BUSY

EMERGENCY

EJECT

AND HEADPHONE LEVEL

INDICATOR

EJECT HOLE

BUTTON

Although the drive has its own headphone jack, with associated volume level control, for use in playing audio CD’s, you can plug in the power speakers at the rear socket, or use the system’s front audio output socket for headphones. It is also possible if you want, to link the main headphone socket via a cable, to your Hi-fi system, and play sounds files, CDs, etc., at higher power.

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