Pushing it in to start closing is the way every tray loading CD drive behaves as far as I have observed since the mid-early 1980's. This going all the way back to a couple of old Denon and Sony systems (audio, of course).
Now, I'll also mention that the Sony, eventually, exhibited the "tray won't stay in" problem that you mention. And a friend's Sony (exactly same model) broke even before mine. (Thus began my dis-illusion with Sony products...) I've not run into a broken tray on a computer CD drive... yet. My belief is that those that break are due to bad design for production (read, we made it with a bit cheaper materials/strength-at-this-point than the engineers said to) rather than that they are not engineered to work by pushing in the tray. mds On Mon, 09 Oct 2006 15:58:58 -0400 Brian Henning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm no expert, but by all counts, I can say that pushing the tray in a > bit (and letting the motor take over) /shouldn't/ damage the drive. Now > if you shove it all the way in way faster than the motor would move it, > you're probably causing unnecessary stress on the closure mechanism, but > otherwise, I believe they're designed to behave that way -- they have a > position sensor on the tray for (apparently) exactly that reason. If it > detects the tray moving inward, it kicks in the motor and finishes closing. > > ~B > > > Joseph Mack NA3T wrote: > > My last two cdrom drives have demised by the tray not staying in (it > > just pops out again). From where I sit, the button is underneath the > > tray, so I just push the tray in. Then the other day I pushed the tray > > in and it popped back out again. On riffling through my hardware stash, > > I found the last cdrom drive with a note "tray won't stay in". So this > > has happened to 2 drives. I only use them very occassionally, I'd expect > > I've had less than 50 insertions on the last drive, which might be > > 2-3yrs old. > > > > Is this just one of those things, or does pushing the tray in damage the > > cdrom? > > > > Thanks Joe > > > -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/
