Using The Dvd Drive; Identifying Drive Types - Gateway MX6633 Hardware Reference Manual

CHAPTER 2: Checking Out Your Gateway Notebook

Using the DVD drive

Identifying drive types

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You can use your notebook to enjoy a wide variety of multimedia features.
Your Gateway notebook may contain one of the following drive types. Look on
the front of the drive for one or more of the following logos:
If your drive has this logo...
ROM/R/RW
www.gateway.com
This is your drive type...
DVD drive
Combination DVD/CD-RW
drive
Multi-format double layer
DVD±RW/CD-RW drive
Use your drive for...
Installing programs, playing
audio CDs, playing DVDs, and
accessing data. You cannot use
this drive to create CDs or DVDs.
Installing programs, playing
audio CDs, playing DVDs,
accessing data, and recording
music and data to recordable
CDs. You cannot use this drive
to create DVDs.
Installing programs, playing
audio CDs, playing DVDs,
accessing data, recording
music and data to CD-R or
CD-RW discs, and recording
video and data to DVD-R,
DVD+R, DVD-RW, DVD+RW, or
double layer DVD+R discs.
Note: To use the double layer
capability of the double layer
recordable DVD drive, the
blank DVDs you purchase must
state Double Layer, Dual Layer,
or DL. Using other types of
blank media will result in less
capacity.