mmmm... sometimes it might work, dunno... i havent had any success with
them, yet.
At 03:34 02/06/2001 +0200, Oded Arbel wrote:
>Actually - I once owned a cleaning CD (not sure where it is now - probably
>in some cabinet somewhere) that had a real tiny brush affixed to it, and as
>it would play (and play some music so you wouldn't be bored while you
>cleaned you CD ;-) it would brush the laser reciever. I know it works
>because I've had at several times problem with reading CDs, and this little
>gizmo solved them - at least for a while.
>
>Oded
>
>...
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>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Noam Meltzer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: "Israeli Group of Linux Users" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Sent: Saturday, June 02, 2001 9:43 AM
>Subject: [OT] fixing bad cdrom drives
>
>
> > 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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