CD-Rom not mounting

[Scott Elcomb]

On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 12:02 PM, Lennart Sorensen
<lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 20, 2012 at 02:50:41PM -0400, James Knott wrote:
>> Yes it is.  I've never had a CD or DVD drive that could play audio
>> without an audio connection of some sort.  Audio tracks are not
>> "data" in the sense of computer files.  They are just a continuous
>> stream of bits representing the music.  CD burner programs can read
>> those tracks and copy them to a file that can be played.
>
> Modern drives no longer have an audio connection.  Since win98 switched
> to digital extraction to play audio, the connector has been disappearing
> from drives.
>
> So the analog audio connector is gone.

FWIW, I haven't installed a CD-ROM drive in years; it never occurred
to me that they'd be on SATA connections now (though in retrospect I
guess it only makes sense)

Despite having little use for CD-ROM drives anymore, I for one am
happy to hear that the audio cable is gone.

Wish I could be of more help... looks like it's back to hardware school for me!

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