Old OD Drive Problems

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From: Douglas Scott
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 04:15

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I have an original 030 cube at home with the Optical Disk Drive.  Rebooting the
machine after a day or two down, I find that when I insert an optical disk, it
loads but does not spin up--nothing happens at all.  After a while the
following message shows up in /usr/adm/messages:

Dec 14 19:18:32 zardoz mach: od0?: drive command failed (not at speed) block
30 phys block -66384 (0:0:0)

I tried cleaning the compartment with a Q-tip, and cleaned the laser lens, but
it made no difference.  I have to shut the machine down entirely to get it to
eject the disk;  if I remove it via paper clip (the eject hole), I cannot
re-insert an OD until I reboot.

I know the OD is OK because I checked it on another machine.

Before I send it back for repairs ($$$!!!) I thought I would ask if anyone has
had this problem and if there are any other things I might try.

Thank you very much in advance!


-- 
Douglas Scott                              (805)893-8352
Center for Computer Music Research and Composition
University of California, Santa Barbara
Internet: (NeXTMail ok)   <doug@foxtrot.ccmrc.ucsb.edu>

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