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DVD-ROM Drive

An internal 8x-speed DVD-ROM drive is available as an option. It supports the following disc formats:

• DVD-RAM: bare one- or two sided disc, reading only

• DVD-ROM: one- or two-layer, one- or two-sided

• CD-ROM (Modes 1 and 2), CD-ROM XA (Mode 2, Forms 1 and 2)

• CD-Audio, Photo CD, CD-RW, CD-R, CD-Extra

• CD-I (Mode 2, Forms 1 and 2), CD-I Ready, CD-I Bridge

• Video CD

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

The DVD-ROM drive is an ATAPI drive and is connected as device 0 in an IDE Device 0/1 configuration on the IDE channel of the main logic board.