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  1. Buying a CD-Rom drive.....
  2. (600Kb per second).
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  4. An IDE CD-Rom drive is a good idea since it shouldn't need a separate controller card.
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  6. The drive should support multi-session Kodak Photo CDs.
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  8. If the drive isn't IDE, can you use your sound card as a controller?
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  10. Tray-loading CD-Rom drives are less fiddly than caddy-loading drives.
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  12. You will need a quad speed or faster drive