My Lombard does the same thing, but only with more recently produced media, along with my 8600. If you take a look at the newer media, it is translucent when looked at from the data side. That combined with the cheaper dyes being used in the data layer make it harder for older drives to read them.
Best solution to something like this is buy a bare CD-RW or Combo drive (you can find some decent, but pricey ones on eBay) and replace the drive in your caddy. These drives are designed to not spin up to high speeds like that, and will read any disc you throw at it much more easily. Plus you get burning ability in your Pismo.
On Oct 22, 2003, at 7:56 PM, Kathryn Odell wrote:
I'd like to add a comment on this Pismo CD issue. I've noticed that my Pismo
CD tends to do this noisy high-speed spinning when I insert a home-burned CD
(using RoxioToast). It will eventually show up on the desktop, but it takes
a while. Does this mean the drive is going? It's happened for over a year.
Any comments on this?
Everytime I insert an audio CD into my Pismo CD drive, the drive begins
to rev really high (sounds like a jet airplane). The drive still seems
to work fine and the revving lasts only temporarily, but the noise is
surely something wrong and unnatural. Is this spelling the end? Any
suggestions would be most appreciated. Thanks.
It depends on the model and make of the drive, as well, apparently, as the cd.
All modern CD drives tend to be noisier, and that whining jet engine sound is quite familar to anyone who works with PC's: all the desktops these days ship with these gawdawful 587x speed drives that sound like the Concorde winding up.
Once the disk is recognized as an audio CD it slows down.
The signs that the drive is going is if this goes on and on, or revs up
and down repeatedly before the disk is recognized.
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