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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
DRIVE
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