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What types of optical disk drives use what type of storage media?
DVDs or CDs
What data cable attatches to the optical drive?
A Molex Connector connects to optical drives and hard drives.
What is Storage media used by optical disc drives?
CD and DVD disks are used by optical disc drives.
What are the optical character?
There are two types uniaxial or biaxial.
When were optical drives invented?
According to http://www.answers.com/optical+drives, David Paul Gregg developed an analog optical disc for recording video and patented it in 1961 and 1969.
What are two examples of storage?
There are many types of storage media, two of them are USBs, or thumb drives, and external hard drives.
Why are CD-ROM and DVD drives called optical drives?
It is called an optical drive because the mechanism for reading and writing information is optical (light) based - it uses lasers.
Laptop optical drives can be integrated or what?
They can also be external.
Which two types of microscopes view the surface of an object?
An optical, and an electron microscope.
What should you do if your computer does not detect two optical drives simultaneously when the master slave jumper settings are ok?
Check the jumpers on the optical drives, play around with those. Check for compatibility with your OS, check the device manager, check for possible drivers needed although unlikely.
What are the 5 examples of output devices?
Monitors, Printers, NIC's, Hard Drives can be both, and optical drives.
What connections does an optical drive use?
Most optical drives use two connections. The first connection is for power. The second connection is for data. Of course, it also uses screws or clips to attach it to the system.
