If we're talking about real hardware (a physical CD-ROM drive) then VxD drivers will work just fine. You will need an internal CD audio cable to connect your drive to the CD_IN header on the SBLive and that's it.

On the other hand, if you mean CD emulation software like Daemon Tools, that's a whole different can of worms.

Hello Joseph_Joestar! So the understanding is that SB live VXD drivers wont work with mixed mode CDs unless using a physical CDROM cable. In the case of using Daemon tools, is there any other way apart from WDM drivers for SB live? (WDM for SB live seem to be underrated).

I don't have much personal experience with Daemon Tools, so someone else will have to chime in on that. I tried it a couple of times, mostly in an effort to reduce drive noise, but I just couldn't get CD audio to work reliably through emulation.

Nowadays, I just use physical media and a real drive. I get rid of the noise by slowing the drive down to 4x speed using Nero CD/DVD speed under Win98 and CDBeQuiet under pure DOS.