ps, per the original question, it's very, very unlikely that a bad cd-r/w drive or any other kind of drive would hurt your machine. it's remotely possible of course if some of the interface pins have hard shorted to a supply rail, particularly if it's the +12 rail but if something like that happens i'd expect the drive in question to have released some of that expensive smoke that's so hard to get back into the chips once it comes out. and silicon smoke really, really stinks, it's hard to miss! also you'd likely see cracks etc. on some of the drives chips. if in doubt find an old junker machine to try it on, but you're probably, almost certainly ok. you could of course only connect the power and check all the interface pins with a meter but that would be rather labor intensive and only worth while if it's a fairly fast drive. i've got a 4x burn, 8x read cdr drive i paid $200 for, if it died i wouldn't spend much time worrying though, they've since gotten allot cheaper and faster as things always do.
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