John Bartow
john at winhaven.net
Mon Aug 29 13:30:17 CDT 2005
I took the dive and was pleasantly surprised. Although it was one of the old proprietary Compaqs, the CD Drive came out in a flash. I took the face plate off of it, hooked it up to my USB - ATA adapter and ejected it. Still didn't come out so I got a couple of plastic cards ready to coax it out and that frightened it so much that it ejected without the need to probe ;o) The CD disk had the slightest warp to it. However, when I was taking the face plate off I noticed a lot of little scratches and gouges in the plastic so this apparently has been a problem in the past. Makes me wonder how many Macs don't want to give up their CDs since they tend to use these slotted CD/DVD drives rather than the trays... -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of John Bartow Sent: Friday, August 26, 2005 7:35 PM To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues' Subject: RE: [dba-Tech] Manually eject CD from a drive without a tray No hole in this one. -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Arthur Fuller Usually there is a pinhole into which you can shove a pin and this forces Eject. I am not familiar with this particular config so it might have one, but I have 3 CDs and DVDs here and they all have it. A. _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com