declan@portia.Stanford.EDU (Declan McCullagh) (07/16/90)
jr@amanue.UUCP (Jim Rosenberg) writes... >I would have *thought* an optical disk would be immune from such problems, >but a buddy of mine with a NeXt gave me the astonishing news that some folks >are getting their optical disk drives practically *ruined* by dust. Yes, it happens if you use it in a dusty environment and don't clean the drives. It's probably a bit worse if you boot off of the OD (which is NOT recommended. it's too slow)... There are some cleaning instructions FTP'able from cs.orst.edu. I've had my cube for about a year now, and I haven't had any problems with my optical drive, even though the cube's been used in what I'd call fairly dusty environments (college dorm rooms and so forth)... -Declan ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Olympic Technologies / Registered NeXT Developers \ declan@portia.stanford.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------------