To get your drive closed, power down the machine, unplug power to the drive and you should be able to gently push it all the way closed. Maybe by being unplugged it may also reset it's dumb bit which keeps re-opening. Worth a shot I suppose. It's just the same as when the machine is powered off and you use a straightened paperclip to pop open the drawer, then gently pull it open to retrieve a CD you forget. The gentle push/pull method has been fine to every drive I've ever encountered.
FWIW, I have had a Sony DVD R/RW drive for over 2 years now and it's fine. I have no negativity towards Sony. I still believe their non-consumer grade products are manufactured very well. Too bad I like my Samsung 50" DLP HDTV better than anything Sony had out at the time that I could afford!! :) Samsung++ laters, David On 10/9/06, Joseph Mack NA3T <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Mon, 9 Oct 2006, mike shlitz wrote: > Hi All, > > I was told and/or read somewhere long ago (around the > time cdroms came out), that one should ALWAYS use the > button to effect closing and NEVER push the tray to > close it. did a quick survey of the conventional wisdom with google and "cdrom drive damage push in tray" gentle push not OK: http://www.mouthshut.com/review/Tips_on_Maintaining_CD-ROM-75805-1.html http://72.14.209.104/search?q=cache:HiVphJI8K5wJ:www.tascamcontractor.com/ftp_resources/files/manual/TEAC_CD-W512S_manual.pdf+cdrom+drive+damage+push+in+tray&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=39&client=firefox-a http://www.cs.princeton.edu/courses/archive/spr00/cs111/labs/sound/2.html gentle push is normal method of closing tray: http://www.retouchpro.com/forums/archive/t-4191.html http://www.informat.io/?title=cd-rom forum where some think it OK and some don't: http://forums.pcworld.co.nz/archive/index.php/t-55805.html There's several stories of trays being pushed too hard, presumably jumping a cog and the drive going clickety-click thereafter. This is hardly a surprise. Neither of my two drives are making any unusual noises. So google hasn't resolved the matter either. I'd hate to spend the rest of my life gingerly pressing buttons because two cdroms in a row died the same way, only to find out on my death bed that the IETF RFC for cdroms requires them to accept a gentle push, and that I just had two crappy drives in a row. (I don't use cdroms much and so I don't spend any money on them - most of my cdroms have come from recycled machines). This is the way weird religions get started. "Son, pusheth in thine tray with thine button, lest thou fall into bedevilment and confusion". cdroms clearly allow you to give a gentle push to start the retraction. Otherwise you'd push and nothing would happen - the motor wouldn't start till you hit the button. Presumably if it's possible to do, then you should be able to do it if you want. I guess I could assume I've had a run of crappy cdroms. I could go hog wild and pay $29.99 at Intrex for the deluxe model and see how long it takes to die. This is a drop in the bucket compared to what I spend on hard disks. 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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