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[OT] fixing bad cdrom drives
- To: Israeli Group of Linux Users <linux-il(at-nospam)linux.org.il>
- Subject: [OT] fixing bad cdrom drives
- From: Noam Meltzer <tsnoam(at-nospam)zahav.net.il>
- Date: Sat, 02 Jun 2001 00:43:17 -0700
- Delivered-To: linux.org.il-linux-il@linux.org.il
- Sender: linux-il-bounce(at-nospam)cs.huji.ac.il
Hi!
I wanted to share this piece of information with you, it might become handy
at a time.
If you happen to have an old cdrom drive, and sometimes even new ones,
which refuses to read cds, there's a way to fix it. The problem is just the
laser eye is dirty. Now, all the cleaning-cds doesn't really work, but the
concept is right. What you have to do is physically open the drive and
disassemble it carefully, remembering where each part go. When you reach to
the laser eye, take a soft cloth and wipe it gently. This should do the
trick. Close the cd-rom and test it, in most cases this will fix the
problem, if not... just throw it to the garbage.
Noam Meltzer
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