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.

Still, the CD-ROM drive itself wouldn't spin up, and a system check mode failed on the "CD I/F" test. The system was sending commands to the CD drive but not receiving any responses back.

The SNES PlayStation CD-ROM prototype sold for around $360,000. It was back on February 13, 2020 that we first reported the SNES PlayStation CD-ROM prototype reaching $30,000 in bids.

A mildly annoying trend over recent years has been for USB hardware devices to expose a CD-ROM drive containing their drivers for Windows users. Of course there’s no real CD in there, instead… ...