Most optical drives today are combo CD/DVD drives that support all the DVD and CD formats. The speeds of the drives are rated by their DVD-ROM and CD-ROM transfer rates. The original DVD drive (1x) ...

Shuttle, along with many other companies generally recognized as motherboard manufacturers, actually has a very diverse product line. They offer everything from CD-ROM drives to Video cards and a wide ...

Cooler Master's new MasterBox CM695 mid-tower case includes an old-school 5.25-inch optical drive bay for the DVD and Blu-ray ...

Besides their new DVD-R/CD-RW drive, LaCie is also introducing two other new devices — a 24x10x40x CD-RW drive and combination DVD-RAM/R drive — at this week’s National Association of Broadcasters ...

John Gumbs asked the Answer Line forum why you can only change a DVD drive’s region a limited number of times. Because that’s the way the Hollywood studios want it. They like to control how their ...

A reader has found that removing the optical media drive from the media bay of his PowerBook G3 ("Lombard") fixes an ongoing problem he has had with the kernel saturating the CPU. Tim Cartwright ...

Advanced Technology Attachment Packet Interface (ATAPI) is a packet-type command connection interface developed to enable connection of CD-ROM drives, DVD drives, etc. to the IDE controller, which was ...

My girlfriend has an old PB laptop (Athlon XP Mobile 2200+ vintage) with a broken (physically snapped off!) CD ROM drive. Windows XP (original install, 4+ years old) finally gave up the ghost. in ...

In my final "Can you fix my computer?" request to be fielded for a family member, I've hit an odd bug.<BR><BR>Brother-in-law says that the CD-ROM stops getting recognized by Windows and the computer ...