Unlike multi-session discs, existing data can be overwritten. To read from and write data to CDs and DVDs you will need a suitable drive. CD/DVD drives are able to: read all CD and DVD formats ...

This project is to allow the direct connection of floppy disk drives with 34-pin Shugart bus ribbon cables to the Raspberry Pi for the purpose of reading floppy disks. It controls the drive using GPIO ...

While DVDs and CDs are slowly becoming ... Tray-loading drives may be more likely to read a damaged or scratched disc than ...

In fact, Shugart himself left IBM and transitioned to Memorex in 1972, helping the company deliver the first commercially available read-write floppy disk drive (the Memorex 650). A hallmark of ...