From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 13 22:01:55 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A31EF16A41C for ; Wed, 13 Jul 2005 22:01:55 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from rsmith@xs4all.nl) Received: from smtp-vbr4.xs4all.nl (smtp-vbr4.xs4all.nl [194.109.24.24]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC4CE43D48 for ; Wed, 13 Jul 2005 22:01:54 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from rsmith@xs4all.nl) Received: from slackbox.xs4all.nl (slackbox.xs4all.nl [213.84.242.160]) by smtp-vbr4.xs4all.nl (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id j6DM1qXt098756; Thu, 14 Jul 2005 00:01:53 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from rsmith@xs4all.nl) Received: by slackbox.xs4all.nl (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 851836280; Thu, 14 Jul 2005 00:01:52 +0200 (CEST) Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2005 00:01:52 +0200 From: Roland Smith To: Garrett Cooper Message-ID: <20050713220152.GA94944@slackbox.xs4all.nl> Mail-Followup-To: Garrett Cooper , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <42D4CDAE.9020503@u.washington.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="FL5UXtIhxfXey3p5" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <42D4CDAE.9020503@u.washington.edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-GPG-Fingerprint: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 X-GPG-Key: http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/pubkey.txt X-GPG-Notice: If this message is not signed, don't assume I sent it! X-Virus-Scanned: by XS4ALL Virus Scanner Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Optical drive laser misalign guidance X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2005 22:01:55 -0000 --FL5UXtIhxfXey3p5 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 01:15:42AM -0700, Garrett Cooper wrote: > Not sure if this is the best location to ask, but I have to see anyhow... >=20 > Just wondering if anyone has had any verifiable experience with=20 > misaligned lasers in optical drives, and I was curious how they fixed=20 > the issue if they got that far. >=20 > I'm asking since I have 2 optical drives-both DVD+/-RW and both have=20 > apparently failed to the point where they will either barely read=20 > CD-R/Ws and not read DVDs at all (Liteon SOHW-1633S), or not DVD media=20 > and CD media is read slowly (Sony DRU-500A). A couple of years ago I had a Philips CD-RW drive that stopped burning. It did still read CD's. Since it was out of warranty, I tossed it in the bin and replaced it with a Plextor. Roland --=20 R.F.Smith (http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/) Please send e-mail as plain text. public key: http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/pubkey.txt --FL5UXtIhxfXey3p5 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFC1Y9QEnfvsMMhpyURAmY7AJ9PESkUB9VE5VKI/L6PgqZBY9GgMACeKF4A BuLOKST5EHyNK6U5EMtQksg= =dMEp -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --FL5UXtIhxfXey3p5--