[CLUE-Tech] CDROM Tray won't open

[Randy Arabie]

Quoting Charles Oriez <coriez at oriez.org>:

> At 10:46 PM 12/11/2003 -0800, you wrote:
> 
> >my cdrom tray won't open.  not by pushing the button on front, nor using
> eject
> >whith the device [/dev/scd0 or /cdrom].
> >
> >any clues on why that might be.  i have two drives, one regular and 
> >another rw.
> >  the rw one works, and this one used to...i have not made any hardware 
> > changes.
> 
> 
> this is going to seem silly, but on one of the refurb machines at Polis we 
> had that problem, and it was a simple case that the power lead had worked 
> itself loose.

Not silly at all, I have not cracked the case open to look.  Though, I do hear
some vibration when I try to eject, and the drive is detected and configured on
boot up.

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Randy
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