I was mistaken on one point: it turns out that I can still play audio CDs with my CD drive connected directly to the motherboard (Fleetwood Mac's Greatest Hits album sounds just fine as I type this). Special thanks to Nathan E Norman and Bill Leach for pointing this out to me.
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