IBM OBI34MST 10K3786 User Manual

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v Disc at Once:The drive writes to the entire disc in a single pass; data cannot

be added at a later time.

v Track at Once: The drive copies one track at a time to the disc.
v Multisession: The drive writes several sessions to a disc; each session has at

least one track.

Listed below are descriptions of different CD formats that appear in the table.

CD-Digital Audio:

This format records audio CDs that can be played on audio

CD players.

CD Extra:

This format records audio and data in a multisession format.

CD TEXT:

This format records audio CDs with the album names and song

titles encoded.

CD-ROM (Mode 1):

This format is used for most CD-ROM applications.

CD-ROM XA (Mode 2 Form 1 and Mode 2 Form 2) or CD-ROM Extended
Architecture:

This standard was created for playback of multimedia content.

CD-I (Mode 2 Form 1 and Mode 2 Form 2) and CD-I Ready

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This format is

used for home entertainment systems.

CD-I Bridge:

This format records a combination of Kodak Photo CDs and

Video CDs that can be played on TV set-top players and personal computers.

Photo CD (single and multisession):

This format records CDs that are playable

on TV set-top video CD players and most DVD systems.

7. The CD-RW drive does not have the necessary audio circuitry and decoding functions for CD-I

playback, but it can be read from and write to CDs in this format.

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12x8x32 Internal IDE CD-RW Drive: User’s Guide

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