[Ti] drive Matshita UJ-845s not spinning up disc occasionally

[Malcolm Cornelius]

On 25 Jun 2008, at 09:04, MB wrote:

> I have a MATSHITA DVD-RAM UJ-845S, revision d100, in my titanium  
> mercury
> and it has been great. Lately though it often refuses to spin up the
> drive on inserting a new disc. It just makes a strange unfamiliar  
> noise.
> A few times tapping on the top next to the keyboard makes it spin up,
> but usually I have to restart and reinsert it several times until  
> makes
> the more familiar squelching noises and spins up the disc.
>
> After this point the disc work fine and does usually spin up anew even
> if it's not spinning.
>
> It burns discs, CDs or DVDs, that do work. No problems there.
>
> Anyone recognizes this kind of problem either generally or  
> specifically
> with this drive or have any useful thoughts about it and its  
> resolution?

Sounds like it isn't loading properly, I'd remove and reseat it, if  
that doesn't resolve it, replace it.


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Malcolm Cornelius - The Powerbook Fanatic
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