Digital Research Internal IDE 40x CD-ROM Drive

by Digital Research

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 5.8 x 1.6 inches ; 2.2 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 3 pounds
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B00001MXWC
• Item model number: DRCDROM40
• Average Customer Review: 2.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes
• Date first available at Amazon.com: September 4, 1999

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

Digital Research Technology's Internal IDE 40x CD-ROM drive allows your IBM-compatible computer to play the latest CD-ROM applications at 40x speed. Allowing transfer speeds up to 6 MB per second, this CD-ROM drive works well for smooth video playback and data retrieval. Its 128 KB cache buffer delivers fast performance.

The Digital Research Internal IDE 40x CD-ROM drive supports high-speed data extraction necessary to copy audio CD data to your hard drive or CD recorder. The drive is also compliant with the MPC-3 standard necessary to run today's high-performance multimedia and graphics-intensive game software.

The standard ATAPI IDE interface connects to the same port as your hard drive for simple Plug and Play installation, and the drive fits standard 5.25-inch drive bays. Front-panel audio controls allow you to play your audio CDs without waiting for software to load.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars okay, but needs improvement, October 24, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Digital Research Internal IDE 40x CD-ROM Drive (Personal Computers)

I just bought the CD-ROM to minimize using my CD-RW drive for daily use, and installed on my DELL Dimension 4100 Pentium III 800MHZ.

My first impression was that this thing was little bit noisy...

Things looked just fine until I tried all different kinda of CDs in different format. The drive reads pretty much all the CDs such as regular audio CD, DirectCD(for CD-RW)... etc, but, does not read some of my kids games like Rugrats Activity game and CD-R format CD while my writiable CD drive(Sony CD-RW CRX140E)reads them just fine.

First, I thought it might not have the right driver, so there I was searching and searching web site after another, but could not find the "right" driver since it does not exist. Digital Research themselves say there is no need for any driver unless you are using DOS or Windows3.1. And MS says it is compatible with my OS which is Windows Me.

After a while, I found the little label on the box list of all the supported CD formats... And there it was. CD-R was not in the list. And I still don't know why my kids game can not be read from this thing.

These are the format they claim it supports. CD-ROM XA, CD-DA, CD-I/MPEG, Photo-CD, Karaoke CD, CD-Movie, I-TRAX CD, CD-RW, and CD Plus.(This was shock to me first since I didn't know there are all these different formats available out there).

Overall, I think the CD-ROM is pretty okay, but does not fit my need. I will have to decide which one to refund; the game or the CD-ROM, but my kid love the Rugrat game...

2.0 out of 5 stars it functions..., December 3, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Digital Research Internal IDE 40x CD-ROM Drive (Personal Computers)

I just installed it... - this drive IS very noisy. When watching instructional video, the drive was louder than my speakers. ... I am having trouble with the drive reading the discs. I double klick on the drive letter and it says it's not accessible when CD is in the drive! What I found was that I need to open it within first 10 seconds after putting CD in, otherwise it does not recognize it has something inside. ...