three cheers for the fabulous mummimamma! she provided me with the code to start my lj over a year ago, and has now extended the favor to new member voifac. *mwahs* you are a peach.
I don’t really know if this applies to CD-RW/ DVD-ROM like it does to CD-ROM drives, but a friend of mine made his CD-ROM drive into a CD-RW drive with software but it wore out with in a couple of months!!!!!! Because it strengthens the laser and/ or spins the disk faster, heavily wearing on the hardware, wearing it out! so ask around first.
Don't use software!