[P1] Wonky CD-ROM

[david]

On Thursday, April 3, 2003, at 01:59  PM, Brian Fish wrote:

>
>>> Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2003 12:58 PM by David
>>>
>>> On Thursday, April 3, 2003, at 10:08  AM, Brian Fish wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hello folks,
>>>>  I've got a 600 MHz iBook with a CD-Rom drive.  For months now any
>>>> time I
>>>> insert a CD the CD tray spits the CD back out at me six or seven 
>>>> times
>>>> before it finally accepts it and starts spinning.  Doesn't matter 
>>>> what
>>>> kind
>>>> of CD: data, games, music, CD-ROM, CD-RW, CD-R, etc.  Every single
>>>> time.
>>>> Push it in, it pops right back out.  Can't figure it out.  When it
>>>> finally
>>>> takes the CD, it works fine.  Any Clues?
>>>
>>> Yep - the drive do isn't catching so when you think it is closed it
>>> really isn't.
>>> I have one on my desk right now getting ready to get back to Apple 
>>> for
>>> the same problem.
>
> Really, it seems closed?  I push the door closed, it spins for a 
> second and
> then spits open as if I've hit the eject key.  As I said, after about 
> seven
> times, it stays closed and spinning and works fine.  Guess I should 
> call
> Apple.
>
That's exactly what the one I sent back today did. At first I thought 
the problem was bad disks but the disks it spit out were accepted by 
other iBooks. That's when I called AppleCare. Must be a known problem 
or at least not terribly uncommon because when I described the problem 
and mentioned that I tried the disks in other iBooks and they were 
accepted without problem, she immediately started taking the info 
required to send it back.

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David