How Optical Drives Work

How Optical Drives Work describes the operation of a CD Drive as fitted to a Windows PC. Full color illustrations throughout the book show the processes involved in reading and writing data to an optical disk. The different types of CD disks are covered in this book. The drives internal components are shown. Read and write to a CD-R disk is shown with full color illustrations. The processes involved in reading and writing to a CD-R disk is shown with full color illustrations. Data transferred from the drive to the motherboard is explained. Read and write to a CD-RW disk is shown with full color illustrations.