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

[Cristobal Palmer]

I think the problem is not where you think it is. It's much more
likely that the laser is dirty and that the drive doesn't realize it's
seeing a valid disk. It's popping back open because it's spitting out
what it thinks is an invalid disk.

Does your box have dusty, grimy innards?

-CMP

On 10/9/06, Joseph Mack NA3T <jmack at wm7d.net> wrote:
> On Mon, 9 Oct 2006, Mark Shuford wrote:
>
> >
> > Pushing it in to start closing is the way every tray
> > loading CD drive behaves as far as I have observed since
> > the mid-early 1980's. This going all the way back to a
> > couple of old Denon and Sony systems (audio, of course).
>
> that's what I've always done too. But with two consecutive
> drives dying with the tray mechanism not working, I thought
> I'd better check.
>
> > My belief is that those that break are due to bad design
> > for production (read, we made it with a bit cheaper
> > materials/strength-at-this-point than the engineers said
> > to) rather than that they are not engineered to work by
> > pushing in the tray.
>
> OK, will keep pushing them in then
>
> Thanks Joe
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Cristobal M. Palmer
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