ok, here's the deal, I want to build some sort of little control box with controls like a cd player (play, stop , FF, RW , pause) and just hook that up to the IDE port on the backof the drive, no pc ...

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 ...

Optical drives no longer come pre-installed in most PCs and laptops, yet they’re still indispensable for many users. Whether for playing old DVDs, installing ancient software from CDs, or burning data ...