Laptop CDROM drives don't have the same connector as a laptop hard disk. The interface itself is the same but the plug/socket isn't.

You could cache the audio from the CDROM if you do DAE but since the audio on the CDROM is uncompressed, the amount of antiskip you could do wouldn't be that much. Probably around 30ish seconds depending on how much memory is available.

The hard part is how and where to mount the CDROM drive. If you're installing it internally then you'll need to find space for the drive inside the empeg casing and if you're mounting it externally then you'll need to work out a way of connecting it up reliablely and without blowing up the empeg.

If anybody wants to temporarily donate a laptop CDROM drive and an adapter which fits the IDE connector inside the empeg I'll write an app which binds into Hijack to control it

- Trevor