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ATAPI (ATA Packet Interface) is a protocol used with the Parallel ATA (IDE) and Serial ATA standards so that a greater variety of devices can be connected to a computer than with the ATA command set alone.
SCSI Multimedia Commands (MMC) is a standard defining a SCSI/ATAPI based command set for accessing and controlling optical disc readers/writers (any device of type 05h). Thus, optical drives for the compact disc , DVD , and Blu-ray disc fall under this specification.
Optical drives for computers come in two main form factors: half-height (also known as desktop drive) and slim type (used in laptop computers and compact desktop computers). They exist as both internal and external variants. Half-height optical drives are around 4 centimetres tall, while slim type optical drives are around 1 cm tall.
cdrtools, a comprehensive command line-based set of tools for creating and burning CDs, DVDs and Blu-rays; cdrkit, a fork of cdrtools by the Debian project; cdrdao, open source software for authoring and ripping of CDs in Disk-At-Once mode; DVDStyler, a GUI-based DVD authoring tool
Since the RD (RMDIR) command can not delete a directory if the directory is not empty (except in Windows NT & 10), the DELTREE command can be used to delete the whole directory. The deltree command is included in certain versions of Microsoft Windows and MS-DOS operating systems .
Windows: Freeware: GUI IDE(PATA), SATA eSATA, USB No Yes No No Primarily a defragmenter; supports basic S.M.A.R.T. stat display, includes the one-word summary of drive-health. Disk Utility: macOS: Commercial proprietary: GUI Yes eSATA and removable drives ? No No No Summary information includes one line for S.M.A.R.T. [5] HDDExpert: Windows ...
An optical disc drive is a device in a computer that can read CD-ROMs or other optical discs, such as DVDs and Blu-ray discs. Optical storage differs from other data storage techniques that make use of other technologies such as magnetism , such as floppy disks and hard disks , or semiconductors , such as flash memory .
UEFI support in Windows began in 2008 with Windows Vista SP1. [22] The Windows boot manager is located at the \EFI\Microsoft\Boot\ subfolder of the EFI system partition. [23] On Windows XP 64-Bit Edition and later, access to the EFI system partition is obtained by running the mountvol command. Mounts the EFI system partition on the specified drive.