Are there any programs that can slow down a CD-ROM's read speed and prevent it from spinning up discs?<BR><BR>I ask because I just bought a laptop and it's CD-ROM drive is bad. It makes a lot of nasty ...

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 ...

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It wasn’t long ago that techno-pundits were ready to bury the CD-ROM. The Internet, with its 24-hour-a-day worldwide access, would all but replace the CD-ROM as the medium of the digital age, the ...

The CDR-8130 16maX CD-ROM drive features transfer rates of up to 16X and an average access time of 90ms to enable the next generation of multimedia software for high-quality full-motion video at very ...

This article describes how to set up a virtual CD-ROM jukebox (VCDJ) using Samba and Linux. A VCDJ is a network server that provides access to the contents of a large number of CD-ROM disks, without ...