So this morning a was about to check out disc 2 of Porcupine Tree's album In Absentia. Put it in my iBook and...it spits the disc out without even spinning up! I've had my fair share of problematic ...

Win2k Pro plain, no SP's here.<P>When I put an Audio CD in the CD drive it's reckognized as an audio CD but it no longer automatically starts the CD player.<P>If I manually start the CD player it ...

When your Dell computer boots up, it references a list of bootable devices contained in the computer's BIOS. The computer will start at the top of the list and check the device for bootable ...

Do combo movie-watching and music-recording drives have the write stuff? Apparently PC manufacturers think so. After a slow start, combination CD-rewritable and DVD drives are showing up in computers ...

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 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 ...