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14. CD-ROM drives

For more information on CD-ROM drives check the CDROM-HOWTO at http://sunsite.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/.

14.1 Supported

Common CD-ROM drives

Proprietary CD-ROM drives

14.2 Others

14.3 Notes

PhotoCD (XA) is supported. The hpcdtoppm program by Hadmut Danisch converts PhotoCD files to the portable pixmap format. The program can be obtained from ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/hpcdtoppm or as part of the PBM utilities.

All CD-ROM drives should work similarly for reading data. There are various compatibility problems with audio CD playing utilities. (Especially with newer low-end NEC drives.) Some alpha drivers may not have audio support yet.

Early (single speed) NEC CD-ROM drives may have trouble with currently available SCSI controllers.

Also many CD-Writers are supported by Linux now. For a list of CD-Writers supported check the CD-Writing mini-HOWTO at http://sunsite.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/mini/CD-Writing. The X-CD-Roast package for Linux is a graphical front-end for using CD writers. The package can be found at ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/utils/disk-management/xcdroast-0.95.tar.gz.

Finally, most IDE CD-ROM Changers are supported.


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