There is one good rule of thumb for drives - they must support 512 bytes per
sector.

CD ROM drives default to 2048 bytes per sector, we don't work with them
unless they can accept a (mode select) command to switch to 512 bytes per
sector.
For example :
The Power CD from Apple will not work because of this.

The NEC CD ROM drives do not work, we've found them to be non-standard in
their SCSI implementation.


Source is John Teel - YCRD