[TriLUG] cdrom: does pushing the tray in damage them?

[Dave Sorenson]

In Soviet Russia CDROM  pushes YOU!

 

Jim Ray wrote:
> Shoot, I didn't know that thing was for CDROM.  I use mine as a cup holder
> for my quart of beer.  Burp.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org] On Behalf
> Of Brian Henning
> Sent: Monday, October 09, 2006 3:59 PM
> To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list
> Subject: Re: [TriLUG] cdrom: does pushing the tray in damage them?
>
> I'm no expert, but by all counts, I can say that pushing the tray in a 
> bit (and letting the motor take over) /shouldn't/ damage the drive.  Now 
> if you shove it all the way in way faster than the motor would move it, 
> you're probably causing unnecessary stress on the closure mechanism, but 
> otherwise, I believe they're designed to behave that way -- they have a 
> position sensor on the tray for (apparently) exactly that reason.  If it 
> detects the tray moving inward, it kicks in the motor and finishes closing.
>
> ~B
>
>
> Joseph Mack NA3T wrote:
>   
>> My last two cdrom drives have demised by the tray not staying in (it 
>> just pops out again). From where I sit, the button is underneath the 
>> tray, so I just push the tray in. Then the other day I pushed the tray 
>> in and it popped back out again. On riffling through my hardware stash, 
>> I found the last cdrom drive with a note "tray won't stay in". So this 
>> has happened to 2 drives. I only use them very occassionally, I'd expect 
>> I've had less than 50 insertions on the last drive, which might be 
>> 2-3yrs old.
>>
>> Is this just one of those things, or does pushing the tray in damage the 
>> cdrom?
>>
>> Thanks Joe
>>
>>     
>
>