jiro@heights.cit.cornell.edu (03/02/90)
Howdy netlanders-
My OD's gone done yet again. This time it seems to be a media
problem (unrecoverable ECC errors and no more bad block replace-
ments). I have a question for all you folks with OD only or
OD dependent systems:
- How many times have you had your OD drive replaced?
- Has your floptical disk (media) ever gone bad?
One of my sympathetic MS-DOS friends suggested I armor-all
my OD disk. This is (was) being discussed in rec.audio.high-end
as a means of improving CD quality. Anyone try it for OD's? It's
also apparently a common custom for CD-ROMS? Again, anyone have
any input on this?
- jiro nakamura -
independent NeXT developer
jiro@heights.cit.cornell.edugerrit@nova.cc.purdue.edu (Gerrit) (03/07/90)
In article <1990Mar2.144731.4314@heights.cit.cornell.edu> jiro@heights.cit.cornell.edu asks about OD problems :
One of the problems that seems to happen often on the Optical Drives
is that the laser gets dusty. I believe the recommended solution
is to blow compressed freon [?] across the laser or mirror. You
might ask your NeXT hardware person or NeXT rep for more details
if your OD is a perpetual problem.
gerritfhadsell@csm9a.UUCP ( GP) (03/08/90)
In article <8186@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>, gerrit@nova.cc.purdue.edu (Gerrit) writes: > In article <1990Mar2.144731.4314@heights.cit.cornell.edu> jiro@heights.cit.cornell.edu asks about OD problems : > > One of the problems that seems to happen often on the Optical Drives > is that the laser gets dusty. I believe the recommended solution > is to blow compressed freon [?] across the laser or mirror. You > might ask your NeXT hardware person or NeXT rep for more details > if your OD is a perpetual problem. > I suspect this problem to be the root of my current difficulties. Our NeXT hardware person has had my OD drive replaced, but that seems to be a rather drastic solution. He told me that NeXT is coming out with a device for cleaning the drives within a couple of months. I would appreciate comments from NeXT. -- INTERNET:: fhadsell@csm9a.colorado.edu BITNET:: fhadsell@mines Frank Hadsell, Prof. of Geophysics, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, Colorado 80401 (303) 273-3456