Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2005 00:01:52 +0200 From: Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl> To: Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Optical drive laser misalign guidance Message-ID: <20050713220152.GA94944@slackbox.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <42D4CDAE.9020503@u.washington.edu> References: <42D4CDAE.9020503@u.washington.edu>
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--FL5UXtIhxfXey3p5 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 01:15:42AM -0700, Garrett Cooper wrote: > Not sure if this is the best location to ask, but I have to see anyhow... >=20 > Just wondering if anyone has had any verifiable experience with=20 > misaligned lasers in optical drives, and I was curious how they fixed=20 > the issue if they got that far. >=20 > I'm asking since I have 2 optical drives-both DVD+/-RW and both have=20 > apparently failed to the point where they will either barely read=20 > CD-R/Ws and not read DVDs at all (Liteon SOHW-1633S), or not DVD media=20 > and CD media is read slowly (Sony DRU-500A). A couple of years ago I had a Philips CD-RW drive that stopped burning. It did still read CD's. Since it was out of warranty, I tossed it in the bin and replaced it with a Plextor. Roland --=20 R.F.Smith (http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/) Please send e-mail as plain text. public key: http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/pubkey.txt --FL5UXtIhxfXey3p5 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFC1Y9QEnfvsMMhpyURAmY7AJ9PESkUB9VE5VKI/L6PgqZBY9GgMACeKF4A BuLOKST5EHyNK6U5EMtQksg= =dMEp -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --FL5UXtIhxfXey3p5--
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