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 Optical Drive Definition: The device you put an optical disk into. Refers to any medium that commonly uses a laser to read a disk, hence the "optical" moniker. Can read, and possibly write, to aforementioned "disk" Usually tray-loading (Where a tray you set the disk on extends and retracts) but can be slot-loading, or less commonly, caddy loading (where you put the disk into a cartridge that is then loaded into the device. Usage: "Please set your optical drive to be the first device in the boot sequence" Posted by Anime-Addict on May 10, 2009 at 21:23:16 Pacific |
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