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>Optical Drives (CD/DVD)</TITLE
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NAME="GENERATOR"
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CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.7"><LINK
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REL="HOME"
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TITLE="Linux on the Road"
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HREF="index.html"><LINK
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REL="UP"
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TITLE="Hardware in Detail: CPU, Display, Keyboard, Sound and More"
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HREF="mobile-guide-p2c1-hardware-in-detail.html"><LINK
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REL="PREVIOUS"
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TITLE="Floppy Drive"
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HREF="mobile-guide-p2c1s20-floppy-drive.html"><LINK
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REL="NEXT"
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TITLE="Hard Disk"
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HREF="mobile-guide-p2c1s23-harddisk.html"></HEAD
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>Linux on the Road: </TH
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WIDTH="10%"
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>Chapter 12. Hardware in Detail: CPU, Display, Keyboard, Sound and More</TD
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NAME="mobile-guide-p2c1s21-cd-drive"
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>12.32. Optical Drives (CD/DVD)</H1
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><A
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NAME="AEN3282"
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>12.32.1. CD-ROM</H2
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NAME="AEN3284"
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>12.32.1.1. Related Documentation</H3
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> <A
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HREF="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/CDROM-HOWTO/"
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TARGET="_top"
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>CDROM-HOWTO</A
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</P
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> <A
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HREF="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/CD-Writing-HOWTO.html"
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TARGET="_top"
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>CD-Writing-HOWTO</A
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</P
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NAME="AEN3294"
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>12.32.1.2. Introduction</H3
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> Most notebooks today come with CD drives. If floppy and CD drive are
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swappable they are usually mutually exclusive, however many vendors (HP,
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Dell) provide cables which allow the floppy module to be connected to
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the parallel port. Sometimes the CD drives comes as external
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<SPAN
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CLASS="acronym"
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>PCMCIA</SPAN
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> device (e.g. SONY), or as SCSI device (e.g. HP
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OmniBook 800), USB device (e.g. SONY), or as Firewire (e.g. SONY VAIO
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VX71P). Such an external devices might bear problems to install Linux
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from it.
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</P
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> As far as I know there are SONY DiscMans available which have a port to
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connect them to a computer or even a SCSI port. I found an article
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published by Ziff-Davis Publishing Company (September 1996 issue, but
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missed to note the URL) written by Mitt Jones: "Portable PC Card CD-ROM
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drives transform laptops into mobile multimedia machines", which listed:
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Altec Lansing AMC2000 Portable Multimedia CD-ROM Center; Axonix ProMedia
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6XR; CMS PlatinumPortable; EXP CDS420 Multimedia Kit; H45
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Quick<SPAN
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CLASS="acronym"
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>PCMCIA</SPAN
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> CD; Liberty 115CD; Panasonic KXL-D740;
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Sony PRD-250WN CD-ROM Discman.
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</P
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><P
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> To here music from internal CD drives usually works without problems.
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But note:
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>
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Some notebooks come with an external CD drive, you need an extra cable
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to connect the sound output of the drive to the sound input of the
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notebook.
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</P
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>12.32.2. CD-RW</H2
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> Most notebooks today even come with internal or external CD writers.
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The internal usually work, see
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<A
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HREF="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/CD-Writing-HOWTO.html"
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TARGET="_top"
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>CD-Writing-HOWTO</A
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for details. But with the different external (PCMCIA, Firewire, USB) drives you probably need
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some tweaking.
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>12.32.3. DVD Drive</H2
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> <A
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HREF="http://linvdr.org/projects/regionset/"
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TARGET="_top"
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>regionset</A
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adjusts and shows the region code of DVD drives.
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</P
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><P
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> <A
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HREF="http://www.trylinux.com/projects/udf/index.html"
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TARGET="_top"
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>Universal Disk Format (UDF) Driver</A
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: "UDF is a newer CDROM filesystem standard that's required for
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<SPAN
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CLASS="acronym"
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>DVD</SPAN
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> roms. It's meant to be a replacement for the
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ISO9660 filesystem used on today's CDROMs, but the immediate impact for
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most will be DVD. <SPAN
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CLASS="acronym"
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>DVD</SPAN
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> multimedia cdroms use the UDF
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filesystem to contain MPEG audio and video streams. To access
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<SPAN
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CLASS="acronym"
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>DVD</SPAN
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> cdroms you would need a <SPAN
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>DVD</SPAN
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cdrom drive, the kernel driver for the cdrom drive, some kind of MPEG
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video support, and a UDF filesystem driver (like this one). Some
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<SPAN
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CLASS="acronym"
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>DVD</SPAN
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> cdroms may contain both UDF filesystems and
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ISO9660 filesystems. In that case, you could get by without UDF
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support."
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</P
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> <A
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HREF="http://www.linuxvideo.org/"
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TARGET="_top"
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>DVD Video</A
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> DVD formats:
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CLASS="programlisting"
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> Digital Versatile Disc
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DVD-5 4.4GB 1side 1 coat ~ 2h video
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DVD-9 8.5GB 1side 2 coat ~ 4h video
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DVD-10 9.4GB 2side 1 coat ~ 4.5h video
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DVD-18 17 GB 2side 2 coat ~ 8h video
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</PRE
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