Most SCSI CD-ROM drives have a “test mode” jumper that makes them play (or replicate as the manuals stated) audio out their analog output without needing anything else.

A mildly annoying trend over recent years has been for USB hardware devices to expose a CD-ROM drive containing their drivers for Windows users. Of course there’s no real CD in there, instead… ...

The original CD-ROM drive (1x) transferred data at 150KB per second. By doubling the spindle RPMs, the data transfer rate increased to 300KB/sec (2x) and so on. See CD-ROM and DVD drives.

Q: I need to replace my CD-ROM drive, which is a really slow one that came with the computer when I bought it a couple of years ago. I'm leaning toward at CD-RW drive, so I can burn my own CDs.

CD-ROM drives have dropped below $200 and have now become a standard drive on any new PC. CD-Recordable (CD-R) drives, which record data and images to CD discs, have dropped below $1,000 and some ...

A mail-order house called Tenex (800-776-6781) has an internal CD-ROM player (it fits in a disk drive bay inside your computer) for $199 and an external model that looks exactly like the DAK for $289.

CD ROM drive. Windows XP (original install, 4+ years old) finally gave up the ghost. in order to equip the machine to do a re-install, I took out the old CDROM, ...

By the mid-1990s, most CD-ROM drives could pass the digital data over the computer's bus (see digital audio extraction). PCs today use a standard four-pin cable; however, earlier cards and drives ...

Linux distributor MandrakeSoft says some CD-ROM drives made by Korea's LG Electronics contain a flaw that makes them inoperable when used with Mandrakes' version of the open-source OS.

well like I said the BIOS sees the drives just fine.<BR><BR>Ok I was able to boot from a win98 boot disk and now I'm able to see the drives and the CD-ROM.<BR><BR>I can't boot from just 1 HD ...

But as originally specified, one CD-ROM could store 550 MB of data, a mind-melting capacity in the mid-1980s, when even a 20 MB hard drive felt sinfully luxurious and floppies maxed out at 1.2 MB.