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Optical Drives

Comment:

Is there such thing as an Optical drive that does not need software to run. Like a plug n play type thing. My drive will not read anything so it just spits the CDs and DVDs right back out so I was told to get an optical drive but I cant use them because they need the software installed which I can not do.

Name: jtblq
Date: July 20, 2009 at 05:17:48 Pacific

Reply:

Yeah. Most will just come with some software like Toast but they are all pretty much plug and play. Applications can see every piece of hardware that System Profiler acknowledges.

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