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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 -- Joseph Mack NA3T EME(B,D), FM05lw North Carolina jmack (at) wm7d (dot) net - azimuthal equidistant map generator at http://www.wm7d.net/azproj.shtml Homepage http://www.austintek.com/ It's GNU/Linux! -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/
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