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DVD-R/CD-RW Drive

Some configurations of the Power Mac G4 computer have a combination DVD-R and CD-RW drive. The drive uses slot loading of the disc.

The drive can read DVD media and read and write CD media, as shown in Table 3-5. The DVD-R/CD-RW drive also provides DVD-Video playback with DVD MPEG2 decode.

Table 3-5 Types of media read and written by the DVD-R/CD-RW drive

Media type	Reading Speed	Writing Speed
DVD-R	6x	2x
CD-R	24x	8x
CD-RW	24x	4x
CD or CD-ROM	24x	-

Digital audio signals from the DVD-R/CD-RW drive can be played through the sound outputs under the control of the Sound Manager.

The DVD-R/CD-RW drive is an ATAPI drive and is device-select jumpered as Device 0 (master) in an ATA Device 0/1 configuration.