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- Path: sparky!uunet!nwnexus!sounds!brianw
- From: BrianW@SoundS.WA.com (Brian Willoughby)
- Subject: Diagnostics for NeXT Optical Drive
- Message-ID: <C0DMwx.2EJ@sounds.wa.com>
- Sender: brianw@sounds.wa.com (Brian Willoughby)
- Reply-To: BrianW@SoundS.WA.com
- Organization: Sound Consulting, Bellevue, WA, USA
- Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 10:38:57 GMT
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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.
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- 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
- NeXTmail welcome
-