Creative CD820E User Manual

8X CD-ROM Drive

CD820E

User Guide

On-line Version

Knowing Your

CD-ROM Drive

This booklet contains the following information regarding your
CD-ROM drive. It provide s you with:

❑ A summary of the features of your drive,
❑ A description of its va rious comp onents and
❑ A list of its technical specifications.

For more information pertaining to the installation and usage of your
drive, refer to the

User’s Guide

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Creative

CD-820E

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The Features of Your Drive

Your CD-ROM drive is just like a CD player. It allows you to play
audio CDs, skip and stop a track, and eject the CD using the controls
located at your drive’s front panel.

But unlike a CD player, your CD-ROM drive comes with a software
application that can transform your PC into an even more vers atile CD
player (see Chapter 3, “Using QuickCD” of the User’s Guide).

Furthermore, your drive supports the following features:

❑ 8X Speed Transfer

Your drive can supply a continuous stream of information at
1,200 KB per second to the PC’s bus. This high transfer rate
allows you to retrieve data much faster from the CD-ROM
drive.

❑ CD-ROM Standards

Y our drive meets the MPC level 2 requirements for CD-ROM.
It also enables you to read CD-ROM/XA (Extended
Architecture) — a specification that allows you to interleave
data, audio, and video sectors on a CD.

At the date of printing this booklet, the MPC 3
specifications have yet to be finalized.

❑ Motorized Tray Loading System

Your drive comes with a motorized tray loading system which
allows you to load your CDs like a CD player.

❑ Multiple Drives Support

You can connect more than one CD-ROM drive to your PC.
For more information on connecting additional drives, refer to
the section “Connecting Additional Drives” in Chapter 4 of the

User’s Guide

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The Drive’ s F ront Panel

This section describes the vario us controls on your drive’s front pan el
as shown in Figure 1.

Figure 1: The front panel of your CD-ROM drive.

Stereo Phone Jack

The Stereo Phone jack allows you to connect a pair of earphones to the
drive. It also allows you to connect a pair of powered speakers. If you
are connecting a pair of speakers to your drive, make sure that you
switch on the speakers.

Busy Indicator

The Busy indicator lights up whenever your drive is reading data from
your disc. This indi cator blinks with a green light when your drive is
playing audio and an orange lig ht w hen y our dri ve is oper at ing i n 8 X
speed mode (1,200 KB per second).

Volume Control

The V olu me control allows you to adjust the volume of your earphones
or powered speakers connected to the front panel Stereo Phone jack.
This control has no effect on the audio output from devices (such as
speakers) connected to your audio card.

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