A CDROM drive is neither an input device or an output device. A CDROM drive is a storage device.
Each IDE connector on the board supports two channels per. (Two drives) The combination of drives can vary. For instance, hard drive-cdrom, hard drive-hard drive, cdrom-cdrom, ect....ect.
Flip the laptop over so that the rubber feet are facing up. Remove the screw in the center of the laptop with the picture of a lock near it. This is the only thing keeping the cdrom drive from sliding out of the laptop. If it doesn't come out easily, you may need to power up the laptop, open up the cdrom tray, power off the laptop (while the cdrom tray is still open) then repeat procedure above - however, you'll now have the cdrom tray to use as a handle to pull out the entire cdrom drive.
None, unless you leave a disc in the cdrom drive.
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
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
To read CD-ROM's, the technology in a CD-ROM drive is an optical disc drive (ODD). It typically utilizes light to retrieve information on a disc.
A CD, DVD or Blu-ray drive (optical drive) that is installed in the computer.The alternative is an external drive, which is a separate box you connect to the computer using a USB cable.
Walnut Creek CDROM ended in 2000.
Walnut Creek CDROM was created in 1991.
Normally you put the original installation CD in the CDrom drive and re-install the program.
A CDROM is a disc that contains data and computer software like video gaming. Computers can read the CDROM it is a read only memory and cannot be written on.