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

[Joseph Mack NA3T]

On Tue, 10 Oct 2006, Aaron S. Joyner wrote:

Thanks to John Mitchell for the official word from Dell on 
the matter.

> especially since the fact that pushing on the tray is a 
> generally accepted method of closing the drive,

Establishing this has been one of the purposes of my 
posting. It wasn't a given at the time of my posting.


> So in conclusion, my guess is that there is no likely 
> correlation between these two events (pushing in the tray, 
> and failure to detect closure of the tray), and that all 
> of the observed correlations are coincidence, brought 
> about by the common practice of closing the tray by 
> pushing on it, and the fact that all things with moving 
> parts fail eventually.

sounds logical enough. I can't think of a counter argument, 
with what (little) I know about the mechanism of a cdrom.

Thanks

Joe

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