Am I the only one who’s old enough to remember CD-ROMs, and they used to be able to play CDs without an OS running? As long as they get power from the IDE power socket, you can put a CD inside and press on the physical “play” button on the panel of the CD-ROM.
Back in my early help desk days I had a manager tell me to disable the ability to listen to music on her employees computers. She felt they were slacking if listening to music.
If I remember, I didn’t hear audio on the headphones after plugging them into the port on the front. I was trying to use it as a simple audio CD player.
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Am I the only one who’s old enough to remember CD-ROMs, and they used to be able to play CDs without an OS running? As long as they get power from the IDE power socket, you can put a CD inside and press on the physical “play” button on the panel of the CD-ROM.
Oh, yeah! They had a play button next to the tray button, and a headphone jack with a volume wheel. I haven’t thought about those in forever.
Back in my early help desk days I had a manager tell me to disable the ability to listen to music on her employees computers. She felt they were slacking if listening to music.
Indeed. I tried to run one without an IDE plugged in (just MOLEX) and it didn’t work :/
Do you mean it didn’t play the CD inside? Do you hear it running past the disc-identification phase and idles?
If I remember, I didn’t hear audio on the headphones after plugging them into the port on the front. I was trying to use it as a simple audio CD player.