[GRLUG] Fussy Optical Drive [probably hardware]

[Benjamin Flanders]

I would say hardware related issue.  The only time I have had the
drive open up again after inserting is if I put the cd in wrong and it
is over hanging the specified cd area and the CD door can't close.
Maybe you have a faulty sensor and the drive thinks it can't close, or
something like that.

Anyway, I would say just pick up a new drive, they are pretty cheap
now days, or if you don't want to buy one on the chance it isn't the
drive, I'm sure someone here might possibly have an extra one laying
around and would be willing to give/loan it to you for trouble
shooting purposes.  We meet about once a month.



On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 7:43 AM, JD Walsh III <jd.walsh at comcast.net> wrote:
> Since I moved one of my computers to a new case, I have an issue where I
> will insert a CD or DVD into the main optical drive, and it will reject
> it. Specifically, the tray slides in, it thinks for a moment, and then
> the tray slides back out. No messages at all in Linux (unless they're
> hidden in a log file somewhere). Sometimes the disc stays in the first
> time, but usually it takes two or three tries before the drive accepts
> it. Once the drive accepts the disc, though, everything seems to work
> just fine.
>
> As I can use the drive with a minimum of inconvenience, this is a
> low-priority problem, but I would really like to know why it's
> happening. I've checked the cable connections from the drive to the
> motherboard (twice), and they seem snug. I suppose it's possible that
> there's a linux-related problem here somewhere, but my money says that
> the drive is going bad. Anyone have any thoughts?
>
> --jd
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