[Gllug] Locked in DVD!

[Richard Turner]

On Sun, 2004-08-22 at 12:37, Chris Bell wrote:
>    The main reason for apprehension about poking around with a paperclip
> with power on is the risk of shorting something inside. The drawer motor is
> normally protected against overload, and will probably help by driving the
> drawer out once it gets the initial shove. Do not assume that it is safe to
> force all motors, some have 4-phase stepper motor drivers which can easily
> fail, possibly on the laser trolley drive, also printers.
> 

Additionally, and this is perhaps more a concern for CD-R and CD-RW
media because they're less robust, often the disc will still be
spinning: if you force an eject it may still be spinning at quite a rate
when the read surface hits the drawer's surface.  I have seen, although
only once it's true, a disc destroyed as the resulting scratches render
it unreadable.

Cheers,

Richard.
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