Sometimes. The problem is that CD-Rs (Orange Book Part II) are "invisible" to DVD laser wavelength because the dye used in CD-Rs doesn't reflect the beam. Some first-generation DVD-ROM drives and many DVD players can't read CD-Rs. The common solution is to use two lasers at different wavelengths: one for reading DVDs and the other for reading CDs and CD-Rs.

FreeBSD supports any ATAPI-compatible IDE CD-R or CD-RW drive. For FreeBSD versions 4.0 and later, see the manual page for burncd(8). For earlier FreeBSD versions, see the examples in /usr/share/examples/atapi. FreeBSD also supports any SCSI CD-R or CD-RW drives. Install and use the cdrecord command from the ports or packages system, and make sure that you have the pass device compiled in your kernel. FreeBSD supports SCSI and ATAPI (IDE) Zip drives out of the box, of course.

Once a bad sector is read, all following reads are returned as bad and the game disc will not play correctly. On Windows 9X, when the DMA option is selected for this CD Drive, the drive freezes during CD initialization. To allow the game to play successfully from this drive, disable the DMA option for the drive and reboot the system. Consult your operating system help files for instructions on turning off the DMA setting. On Windows NT 4, initialization may fail and the game may not play.

Unlike CD-ROM drives, which took years to move up to 2x, 3x, and faster spin rates, faster DVD-ROM drives began appearing in the first year. Most 1x DVD-ROM drives have a seek time of 90-200 ms and access time of 100-250 ms. 1x DVD-ROM drives provide a data transfer rate of 1.321 MB/s (11.08*10^6/8/2^20) with burst transfer rates of up to 12 MB/s or higher.

Yes. All DVD-ROM drives will read CD-ROMs (Yellow Book). Software on a CD-ROM will run fine in a DVD-ROM system. However, DVD-ROMs are not readable by CD-ROM drives.

One of the reasons why this can happen is because the drivers that allow the CD-ROM drives to work in Windows XP have become corrupted. The first thing to try is this Registry File. Remove the devices in Device Manager and reboot. The CD-ROM drives should work now. Open the Device Manager and right-click on the CD-ROM drive that has a yellow exclamation mark by it. Look at each of the driver files that are being used for the CD-ROM drive, specifically the ones that aren't made by Microsoft.

Yes. Some CD-ROM drive manufacturers plan to cease CD-ROM drive production after a few years in favor of DVD-ROM drives. Because DVD-ROM drives can read CD-ROMs, there is a compatible forward migration path.

For the Inspiron 3000, 3200, & 7500 the answer is NO, this will not work, as the BIOS must detect which drive is present during initial bootup, and the Operating System gets it's information about which drive is present from the BIOS. You have to shutdown to change drives. Admittedly some people have reported success with Hot Swapping by logging out of Windows and logging back in again. Why that would work is a mystery and it is not a good idea.

It should be possible to achieve playback on many DVD players and DVD-ROM drives, barring some exceptions. Although a recorded DVD-R disc falls within the same specifications as DVD-ROM (DVD-VIDEO), because the formats are media-related ONLY, support will be entirely up to the hardware maker. According to a study conducted by media makers, DVD-R media is capable of playback on many players with some exceptions.

A CD-R is manufactured as a blank disc and the data is written at a later stage using your CD writer. The data is held within a special dye layer which is burned using a laser to create 'pits' and 'lands' which are read by your CD drive and converted to digital 1s and 0s. A CD-ROM is manufactured with the data already on it - the pits and lands are pressed into the polycarbonate base using a 'stamper'.

A CD-R is a recordable CD that is best suited for professional looking, small runs of CDs (under 1000) that require a quick turn (1-3 days). A CD-ROM is a read only CD that is more economically suited to larger runs, but averages 7-10 days to produce. Both CD-R duplication and CD-ROM replication is available with 4 color process. A client service representative will help you determine whether a CD-R or CD-ROM would be a better value for the project you are considering.

DVD-ROM has is a later technology, all CD-ROMs can be read by DVD-ROM. However, DVD-ROMs cannot be read by CD-ROM drives.

Sometimes. The problem is that CD-Rs (Orange Book Part II) are "invisible" to DVD laser wavelength because the dye used in CD-Rs doesn't reflect the beam. Some first-generation DVD-ROM drives and many DVD players can't read CD-Rs. The formulation of dye used by different CD-R manufacturers also affects readability. That is, some brands of CD-R discs have better reflectivity at DVD laser wavelength, but even these don't reliably work in all players.

Not presently. These write-once disks require UDF or ISO 9660 formatting, which Sound Devices is evaluating for future inclusion in the 7-Series.

Yes, certain titles or custom compilations are available, but only by special request, produced only on an as needed basis.