It’s something [Daniel1111] has done with his Arduino CD player, which uses the little microcontroller board to control a CD-ROM drive via its IDE bus.

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Modern CD-ROM drives also play audio CDs. See CD-ROM and CD-ROM drives. THIS DEFINITION IS FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY. All other reproduction requires permission.

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This problem has a simple fix, just update the driver. To do that, expand DVD/CD-ROM drives, right-click on the DVD writer, and select Update driver. Select “Search Automatically for updated ...

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