I've always wondered why my cd drive grinds... - by charlestheoaf
Kolya on 3/9/2006 at 11:51
A few years ago I was ear witness when my boss put one of those credit card shaped CDs into his CD drive. We had just produced a few hundred of these promotion CDs for a customer and my boss was joking that these things are said to crash drives sometimes. Then came a sound from his drive as if he had thrown the card into a fan. We looked at each other and I couldn't stop grinning.
The drive only made humming sounds and would never open again. I was told to exchange it and shut up about the whole incident.
Nameless_Voice on 3/9/2006 at 13:07
My DVD±RW stopped working a few weeks ago, after I had inserted a blank DVD+R for burning.
It wouldn't detect the discs anymore, and just made a strange noise.
It turns out that I had put the little round foam ring that comes on the top of DVD spindles into the drive on top of the blank...
After dislodging it from in there, the drive works perfectly again.
Also, SS2 is indeed one of those games that uses the 'bad sector' method of copy protection.
Bomb Bloke on 3/9/2006 at 13:20
I've seen a cracked disc (such as you might find in any DVD rental shop) blow the front off a drive tray. The shards didn't just fill the drive, they scattered for metres around the room.
I've also heard rumours that trayless drives have been known to eject discs without first spinning them down. This apparently can cause the disc to embed itself into a wall.
As for grinding noises, I've never seen a disc that'll grind in any drive. Is it the disc grinding, or the drive head?
cosmicnut on 4/9/2006 at 09:06
I'd say the trayless comment is probably an urban legend. Even so, my laptop has a trayless drive. To get the disk in takes a bitof a push as there is a "pad" on the front of the drive. If a disk came out still spinning, this would take the edge off!
Drat on 4/9/2006 at 09:51
My dad once had trouble playing a hired DVD. I took a look at it and it was split across 3/4 of its diameter.
charlestheoaf on 5/9/2006 at 18:20
Quote Posted by Bomb Bloke
As for grinding noises, I've never seen a disc that'll grind in any drive. Is it the disc grinding, or the drive head?
I don't know, but I know I always hear the grinding noises at the same time, the same number of times, and it has only ever happened with my SS2 disk.
ToxicFrog on 14/9/2006 at 23:29
Quote Posted by cosmicnut
I'd say the trayless comment is probably an urban legend.
I don't know about trayless drives or embedding CDs in the wall, but I have seen a few
tray CD drives that will eject the CD without spinning it down.
The sound the disc makes as it drops back onto the tray and spins around on it is truly horrific.
SS2 specifically has never made any odd noises per se, but it
does refuse to work on two of the laptops I've tried it on unless no-CD cracked.
Skua S. on 19/9/2006 at 16:43
Quote Posted by Kolya
What's your crazy CD drive story?
:confused: What is a CD-Drive ?
Matthew on 19/9/2006 at 16:58
I'm rapidly growing suspicious of this Skua S. person.
TheNightTerror on 19/9/2006 at 18:32
He does seem to be rather . . . unique, doesn't he? :weird:
