My CD-ROM Drive just ATE MY ******* CD!!!!!!

[WeaponX]

I'll start at the beginning...Yesterday afterschool my friend gave me a CD. So I went home and around 12 am, I put the CD into my BTC 56x CD-ROM Drive. Now I have never had any other problems with this drive. So I was in the proccess of copying the data off the CD onto my computer. And then when it is about 80% done, it just stops reading. About 5 minutes later, I hear a loud pop, followed by my computer locking up for 20 seconds. Now, I had no clue what that was. So take off the side door and look at my HSF, and it's intact and just fine. So I decided to make nothing of this. Then I tried to eject the cd tray of my cd rom drive. But the tray refused to come out...so I was like okay...wtf? And so I was like "Okay, whatever it's already like 12:30 AM, I have school at 6 I'll just figure this out tomorrow." So tomorrow comes and I go to school and come home. Now, here's the main part. Upon coming home I go upstairs to my computer and remember that the CD-R Drive refused to work. So I took a paper clip and stuck it into the little force eject hole. OMG :eek: The CD that was in there was literally in a million pieces. It was gone, mutilated, destroyed, incinerated. :eek: I couldn't believe it!!! Since when the heck were CDs ever eaten by CD-ROM drives??? Ahhhhhhhh!!! :mad: Can someone explain this to me in any way??? I'm currently in the process of taking this piece of **** apart. If CD in there was software, and not data, I would have to sue someone's ass. :mad: This is what I have learned from this little experience, never EVER buy 3rd party hardware from companies that you have never heard of, just beacuse it's on sale at Fry's.

[Tebore]

First of all What kinda CD was it? I've actually seen this b4. MY friend had a Crappy CD he puts it in a 48 CD rom and BAM CD chucks. Some crappy Cds can't handle the higher speeds of newer drives.

[macklin01]

WOw!!! I've heard older CD's rattle really loudly when read from a faster CD-ROM, but I've never seen anything like that. It sounds like Tebore's explanation is right on target.

Does anybody know if there's a way to manually (through software or otherwise) slow down a CD-ROM when you know you're going to be reading an older CD?

Thanks! -- Paul

[WeaponX]

The CD was a CD-R made by TEAC, 1x - 16x Speed. 700 MB/80 min.

[ThePerfectCore]

"Was" is right. :p

Can you post a pic?

[parkan]

Did you manage to take it out, using a pin on the manual eject hole for example?

[cullam3n]

Originally posted by WeaponX
So I took a paper clip and stuck it into the little force eject hole.

Did you fall asleep reading that parkan?

-PC

[masitti]

LOL :D OMG that was great. Wake up parkan! :)

I've never heard of a CD blowing up in a drive before... :eh?:

[parkan]

I think I did... I usually scan the text diagonally looking for keywords but somehow I missed that entire fragment this time :confused:
How embarassing :eek:

[ThePerfectCore]

I can see it now.

I'd be sitting there, minding my own business...

*Pops in Halflife*

*Begins playing*

KA-POW!!!

*Shards fly out front of machine*

*No-disc-in-drive error pops up*

LOL! I guess you have to see it in your own mind. :p

[parkan]

Ok, now that I actually read the entire thing (I rarely do that as time is of the essence!) I have read an article about it. Let me think.

[parkan]

Found it:

http://www.qedata.se/e_js_n-cdrom.htm

[macklin01]

Originally posted by parkan
Found it:

http://www.qedata.se/e_js_n-cdrom.htm
That was terrific! -- Thanks for the link. :) -- Paul

[FireMogle]

That would be cool to see on a friends computer.

[Über~PhLuBB]

Wow, I didn't know CD-ROMs spun fast enough to disintigrate a disc.

Though I did used to have a CD-ROM that would spit discs out--about 6 feet out. It was a noname 52X drive, and sometimes it would be finicky about ejecting a disc during reading. So I'd press the eject button, and hear the whining sound of the CD whirring inside get higher in pitch as it spun faster and faster. Then the tray would slide out, and the CD somehow created lift on it's own, it would lift itself up out of the tray, and go sailing accross the room. I've still got some CDs with the circular scratch patterns indicative of a CD spinning in place on the floor for a few seconds, after it was ejected 6 feet from the drive.

Wacky stuff!

[parkan]

Usually drives don't go up to thier marked speed so going beyound 40x is prety much pointless.

[Über~PhLuBB]

Originally posted by parkan
Usually drives don't go up to thier marked speed so going beyound 40x is prety much pointless.

Hmm. My Kenwood 72X True-X CD-ROM has a burst transfer rate of 33MBps, IDE. Sounds blase now, but in 1999, this was unheard of. Drives havn't changed since then, this is still the fastest IDE CD-ROM ever produced.

Note that "high speed" drives normally transfer at around 3-6MBps. This one is up to 10MBps sustained, accross the entire disc.

[ThePerfectCore]

Über~PhLuBB, I wish you had video of that happening - I would've LMAO!!!