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I am wondering if anyone with experience in diagnosing and repairing NeXT  
Optical Disks would be willing to share their information with me.

I recently posted a query with the Subject: Q: Care and feeding of the NeXT  
Optical Disk Drive, which resulted in some good advice.  I totally cleaned out  
the dust in my system and reassembled it, making sure that everything was  
working as it should.  However, I still have trouble with the drive spinning  
down and up again when I try to use it.  This happens quite often now, although  
I was able to complete an entire fsck sweep on three different optical disks  
without a single spin-down.  I have no idea why it works sometimes and not  
others.  This is why I am now searching for some sort of diagnostic procedure.

About the only thing suggested which I did not do was to purchase a cleaning  
kit.  Perhaps a less expensive source for the NeXT Optical Drive cleaning kit  
would be the solution I need.  I don't even know NeXT's part number.  That  
would help, too.

P.S.  I am sure that Samual Goldberger will be letting me know what he would  
charge to fix or replace my drive, but I would prefer to handle this myself  
without waiting for shipping delays.  I feel technically competent enough to  
fix the drive, based upon my experience with other electronics, I just need the  
information.

Thanks in advance,
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Brian Willoughby	Software Design Engineer, BSEE NCSU
BrianW@SoundS.WA.com	Sound Consulting: Software Design and Development
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