Slow down CDROM drive

Dotan Cohen dotancohen at gmail.com
Wed Sep 3 16:38:52 UTC 2008


2008/9/3 Bart Silverstrim <bsilver at chrononomicon.com>:
> Dotan Cohen wrote:
>> 2008/9/3 Bart Silverstrim <bsilver at chrononomicon.com>:
>>> Gotta admit, though, that it was kind of pretty.
>>>
>>
>> The shattered disc? As I shatter all the discs I throw away (and shred
>> all paper that I throw away) I suppose that I am used to it.
>
> No, the discs that were etched with little spirals.
>

Mine were not etched with spirals, rather a groove was cut in the
discs at about r/3 from the center. What was interesting, though, is
that the drive in question was noisy _before_ the explosion.
Afterward, even with shrapnel eating away at discs inside, it was
quieter than before.

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