Subj : Chromebook & CD/DVD Drive
To   : Ed Vance
From : Benny Pedersen
Date : Mon Jun 15 2020 09:14:06

Hello Ed!

12 Jun 2020 12:53, Ed Vance wrote to All:

 EV> Can a CD/DVD Drive be used with a Chromebook?

yes, it just cant boot a chromebook

 EV> I have mentioned external Drives to my Friend who uses a Chromebook
 EV> and He is thinking about buy one.

its same as put cdrom drive on huawei phones or tablets, it works, but not being possible to run macOS from it :)

 EV> I Searched with DuckDuckGo for information about Chromebooks and 
 EV> CD/DVD drives and one website page:

sadly chromebooks are designed to have limited ssd, and thus all in cloud filesophy, with is insane with samsung mobile phone have 1TB storages, hmm i still have a chromebook with just 16Gb asus branded

 EV> https://www.chromebookhq.com/chromebook-dvd-drive/

 EV>  says:
 EV> "In summary, a Chromebook optical drive:

 EV>     Can read disks, but with only accepted file types
 EV>     Can play music from accepted file types, like mp3
 EV>     Can play movies from accepted file types, like mp4
 EV>     Cannot burn files to a CD or DVD"

 EV> Does Anyone use a CD or DVD external drive with their Chromebook?

nope, i just copy cd dvd to filesystem, then move data to the chromebook, check if chromebook take diffrent sillyness from rommed devices then read/write devices, or its same shit on usb ?

 EV> Thanks! for any comments,

np

 EV> 73 de Ed W9ODR   .   .

wish i have a radio to connect....


 Regards Benny

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