Philips CD-ROM Drive PCA103CD - Manuale (Pagina 14)

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Congratulations! You have just made a very important
upgrade for your PC. With your new Philips 10X or 12X
CD-ROM drive, you can now take advantage of the vast
host of multimedia software available today at a
higher performance than ever. Whether you are
interested in the Encyclopedia Britanica, educational
games, using your computer as a digital music studio
or composing a business presentation with sound,
graphics and animation, your new CD-ROM drive will be
the tool to efficiently and effectively get all that
information into your computer.
1.1 Features
This CD-ROM drive has the following key features:


IDE/ATAPI interface


Access time at 170 ms for PCA103CD and 150 ms for
PCA123CD


Data transfer rate at 1,500 KB/sec for PCA103CD and
1800 KB/sec for PCA123CD


Built in 256 KB buffer


Special design to ensure maximum readability of
low-quality CDs


Motorized tray for loading and unloading CDs


Fits into a standard 5.25 inch half-height PC disk
drive bay


Manual ejection groove for emergency disc tray
eject


Automatic power-saving feature


Compatibility with the following disc formats:
Audio-CD, Video-CD, CD-ROM/XA, CD-i/FMV (CD-i
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