Knowing Your CD-ROM Drive 1-2
The Drive’s Front Panel
This section describes the various controls on your drive’s front panel
as shown in Figure 1-1.
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.
Figure 1-1: The front panel of your CD-ROM drive.