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CD-RW Drive

Some configurations of the Power Mac G4 computer have an internal CD-RW drive.

The CD-RW drive uses slot loading of the disc. The drive is capable of writing CD-R media at 8x speed and CD-RW media and 4x speed. It can read CD-ROM media at 32x speed.

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

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


Copyright © 2001 Apple Computer, Inc. (Last Updated January 2, 2001)

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