[TriLUG] cdrom: does pushing the tray in damage them?

Tue Oct 10 09:14:38 EDT 2006

On Mon, 9 Oct 2006, David McDowell wrote:

> To get your drive closed, power down the machine, unplug power to the
> drive and you should be able to gently push it all the way closed.
> Maybe by being unplugged it may also reset it's dumb bit which keeps
> re-opening.  Worth a shot I suppose.

Didn't work I'm afraid. Tried it on both cdroms

Interestingly they are both scsi cdroms Toshiba XM-5701TA 
and XM-6201TA. Searches on google for tray problems with 
Toshiba XM cdroms didn't reveal anything.

Joe

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