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choasforages:
hehehe, and i just saw a 58x cdrom a few days ago. now what you do to a co-worker you hate with a fast cd drive, is label a cd so it looks like they would like it. and put a few cracks on the center. and yeah, i heard about it on slashdot a month or so ago

choasforages:
it also makes me want to take one of my busted 40x drives and take it apart, then way over power the moter. maybe i could mount it at eye level. it would be a good security measure......

TheQuirk:

quote:Originally posted by chaosforages:
it also makes me want to take one of my busted 40x drives and take it apart, then way over power the moter. maybe i could mount it at eye level. it would be a good security measure......
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I took one apart a few months ago. If you put a small toy on it and then start it up (I used a 12volt battery), it spins and then the toy flies.

pkd_lives:
This is nothing special, in fact the other month there were postings here of the exact same thing.

It makes absolutly no difference what OS you use, fast CD drives do have this happen, there is no absolute speed limit. The exact cause has never been conclusively proven.

The most likely reason is manufacturing defects (I use the word loosly). It seems one cause is basically metal fatigue, or maybe in manufacturing this one disk cooled just a nanosecond to fast causing a very very well within spec. difference in surface tension. Whatever the reason you end up with a shear edge where the quality of the CD alters (remember this is happening at the atomic level, you'd be damn lucky to see this with inspection X-rays). Now you subject this CD to high rpm and the heat associated with it and you have the perfect conditons for that shear edge to split. It happens rarely but it does happen.

PsychoticDreams:
this has never happened to my 48x cdrom on my hp. I am an avid gamer and i played ra2 and yuris revenge from june to around nov almost everyday. I am now into warcraft 3 and i play that alot no probs. I also have renegade got it a few days ago and its stupid. what kind of pc do u have.

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