CDROM drives dont normally require a "driver card" as they are IDE devices which plug into the motherboards built-in IDE controller.
Yepp.
A CD ROM is a standard compact disc containing data to be read by a digital device, such as a CD player or PC CD-ROM drive. A CD-R is a compact disc which data can be recorded, or burned (hence the term "burning cds). Usually, CD-R's are one shot deals meaning they can recorded until they are either filled up (usually 700 MB) or finalized. CD-R's whether filled up or not cant be read by a digital device until finalized.
CDROM drives do not get infected with virus. May be there is a driver problem. You can first run one of the free anti-virus like AVG and enable your CD ROM drive if you want to reinstall OS from a CD/DVD. - Neeraj Sharma
A CDROM drive is neither an input device or an output device. A CDROM drive is a storage device.
Nope... the data on a DVD-ROM is packed much tighter. A CD-ROM cannot read DVD's but a DVD-ROM can read CD's
Buffer under run means that you're attempting to burn a CD faster than the system can supply data to the driver buffers. Defrag your hard drive. Also drop the CDrom burning rate from 42 X to 12 x and try again.
CD-Rw
To mount a CD in SCO Open server UNIX: login as root make a directory named cdrom then # mount -f HS,lower /dev/cd0 /cdrom
DVD discs have much more capacity - 4.7 Gigabytes compared to a CD's 700 Megabytes. This means that each DVD can hold almost 7 CDs worth of stuff.
of course u can - HOW!!!!!!!!!! Edit: You can find here easy step by step instructions on how to burn a CD. http://dvdcdduplication.posterous.com/how-to-burn-a-cd
on my laptop cd`s got very hot.not very hot on my pc.wouldnt worry too much if it works ok.hope that helps.