
M U L T I M E D I A
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The CD-ROM drive
The basic operation of the CD-ROM drive is described in the
chapter ‘
System drives’
. There are few controls for the CD-ROM drive,
the most important being on the bottom right - the ‘open drive’ or
eject
button.
This causes the drive tray to open in order to place a CD into the
drive. The other two controls are as shown above, headphone
connection and associated volume control. These are for use whilst
playing commercial audio or music CDs. It is also possible to feed
the output from here to your hi-fi system.
Note
You can still use all the other facilities on your computer while you are playing
music from your CD drive.
Remember to allow a few seconds to enable the CD to reach full
speed before attempting to play the audio tracks or read the data.
Inside your computer, if you have the audio equipped version, the
CD drive audio connection will be wired directly to the on-board
sound system, so that the full stereo sound is amplified and
controlled by the Soundblaster.
EMERGENCY
EJECT HOLE
BUSY
INDICATOR
EJECT
BUTTON
COMPACT
DISC DRAWER
HEADPHONE JACK
AND HEADPHONE LEVEL