Slow down CDROM drive

[Bart Silverstrim]

Neil wrote:
> On 9/3/08, Dotan Cohen <dotancohen at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 2008/9/3 Knapp <magick.crow at gmail.com>:
>>> If it were my drive, I would open it up and see if there is something
>>> I can fix by hand. I have fixed a lot of computer stuff this way.
>>>
>> The spindle is part of the tray (laptop) so I did look at it. There
>> does not seem to be anything amiss at rest, but 2000 RPM (just
>> guessing) is another story.
>>
>> --
>> Dotan Cohen
> Hi
> prolly a nuked bearing. You will not be able to fix this. A lower
> speed will decrease the problem and decrease the wear on the drive,
> but the drive will degrade fast.

Side note...aren't you risking any discs you put into the drive, if it 
does go into "catastrophic failure"?

I had a drive where a customer had a disc detonate, then discs he put in 
later wouldn't work right. We put in a disc, it ran fine. Two minutes 
later they failed. Removed the disc and there was a spiral groove etched 
into it.

Turned out a shard of the broken disc was still in there and moved like 
a needle in a record on the discs subsequently put in.

Not your situation, but point is that maybe it's risky once a drive has 
a problem like that at the speeds they spin to keep using it unless you 
absolutely must.