Using An Optical Drive - HP Compaq 6910p User Manual

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Using an optical drive

An optical drive, such as a DVD-ROM drive, supports optical discs (CDs and DVDs). These discs store
or transport information and play music and movies. DVDs have a higher storage capacity than CDs.
All optical drives can read from optical media and some drives can also write to optical media, as
described in the following table.
Optical drive
type
DVD-ROM
Drive
DVD and CD-
RW Combo
Drive
DVD±RW/R
and CD-RW
Combo Drive
with Double-
Layer support
LightScribe
DVD±RW/R
and CD-RW
Combo Drive
with Double-
Layer support
Blu-Ray Disc
DVD±RW
SuperMulti
Drive with
Double-Layer
support
*Low speed (4X) and High Speed (4-12X) are supported. UHS-RW (24X and 32X CD-RW) is not supported.
NOTE: Some of the optical drives listed may not be supported by your computer. The listed drives are not
necessarily all of the supported optical drives.
CAUTION:
functionality, do not initiate Sleep or Hibernation while reading from or writing to a CD or DVD.
To prevent loss of information, do not initiate Sleep or Hibernation when writing to a CD or DVD.
ENWW
Read from CD Write to CD-
and DVD-ROM RW media
media
Yes No
Yes Yes
Yes Yes
Yes Yes
Yes Yes*
To prevent possible audio and video degradation, or loss of audio or video playback
Write to DVD Write to DVD
±RW/R media +R DL media
No No
No No
Yes Yes
Yes Yes
Yes Yes
Write label to Write to DVD-
LightScribe RAM media
CD or DVD
±RW/R
No No
No No
No Yes
Yes Yes
No Yes
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