It’s something [Daniel1111] has done with his Arduino CD player, which uses the little microcontroller board to control a CD-ROM drive via its IDE bus.

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 ...

Most optical drives today are combo CD/DVD drives that support DVDs and all the CD formats: CD audio, CD-ROM, CD-R and CD-RW. The speeds of the drives are rated by their CD-ROM and DVD transfer rates.

The Municipal Transportation Agency board approved a new contract with Hitachi Rail to upgrade its existing train control ...

introduced two 12X CD-ROM drives, the XM-5701B SCSI and the XM-5702B ATAPI. Both feature sustained data transfer rates of 1,800 kbps. Suggested list prices for the XM-5701B SCSI and the XM-5702B ...

A cable used to send audio CD sound to the computer's sound card. When playing audio CDs, CD-ROM drives output analog sound to both a headphone jack and external connector just like a CD player.

This problem has a simple fix, just update the driver. To do that, expand DVD/CD-ROM drives, right-click on the DVD writer, and select Update driver. Select “Search Automatically for updated ...

While CD-i hit the market as a primarily Philips-branded entity, Sony and Nintendo announced a partnership on a CD-ROM drive ...

Upgrading your RAM, storage drives, and processor can significantly ... “We no longer support CD-ROM and Digital Download Programs, although they may still work on compatible computers ...

Optical drive. It's pretty hard to find a computer without a CD-ROM drive these days. In fact, it's hard to find one without a rewritable CD. But time marches on, and today it's preferable to have ...

Optical drives were once so common that virtually ... The first prototype arrived in 1979 to play back music but was adapted into the CD-ROM format in 1985, capable of storing 700MB of data ...