Using your cd-rom drive, 1 drive applications, 2 manually controlling the drive – Philips CD-ROM Drive PCA103CD Manuale d'uso

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3.1 Drive Applications

There are two main ways in which you will use your new

CD-ROM drive. The first way is as a typical disk

drive (albeit read-only). Here, data such as program

files, databases, sound clips, video images, etc. is

read from the CD into your PC's CPU. The other way is

as a CD player. You can use your CD-ROM drive to

listen to music CDs.

3.2 Manually Controlling the Drive

Most of the time, you will use application software to

control the CD-ROM drive. However, there are times

manually controlling the drive can be more direct and

even necessary. Figure 3-1 shows the drive’s front

panel components for manually controlling the drive:

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Figure 3-1 The Front Panel Look

USING YOUR CD-ROM
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