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Appendix A: CD-ROM Drive
A.1 Introduction
Your system includes a CD-ROM drive in a 5.25-inch half-height form factor. This drive
is ideal for multimedia applications that incorporate graphics, animation, full-motion
video, electronic publishing, and information distribution.
This CD-ROM drive is designed to be compatible with an industry standard – the
Enhanced IDE/ATAPI interface. The Enhanced IDE/ATAPI interface allows the CD-
ROM drive to share the same data bus and interface card with a hard disk drive.
With the Boot from CD-ROM option
enabled in your system BIOS, there is a
possibility that your system will
encounter problems at bootup if you are
using a non-bootable CD. If this occurs,
remove the CD and reboot the system.
This CD-ROM drive has the following key features: