Some CD-ROM drives made by LG Electronics contain a flaw that makes them inoperable when used with MandrakeSoft's version of the Linux operating system, MandrakeSoft said. The drives in question ...

it'll wear out just as fast as a cdrom drive will. there are different lasers for reading and writing (I'm 75% sure on this one) <BR><BR>oh, and pc world has not been a good source for about the last ...

Got new technology? Great; you can plug Micro Solutions Inc.’s new Backpack Triple Play CD-RW into a newfangled, high-speed USB 2.0 port. Prefer old school? No problem; you can plug the $229 drive ...

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 ATAPI ...

Recently I had a conversation with a coworker who asked me about CD-ROM drives. They purchased a new PC a year or so ago and it does not have an optical drive. This wasn’t a problem until they came ...

When the first commercial DVD drives arrived in 1997, advocates for the technology heralded it as the heir apparent to CD-ROM drives, which were then standard equipment in new PCs and beginning to be ...

The 1.44-megabyte floppy-disk drive is an endangered species largely because its primary predator, the CD-rewritable drive, uses media that can store up to 700MB per disk and costs only about $100. CD ...

I have a bootable DOS CD-ROM that I use for various troubleshooting purposes (virus scans, diagnostic software, etc.). I used to use cdrom.sys from the Windows 98 boot floppy here.<BR><BR>I've since ...