JIM HOLSONBACK wrote in a message to ROY J. TELLASON:

 JH> Hello, Roy.
-=> ROY J. TELLASON wrote to CHARLES ANGELICH <=-
 JH> 

 CA> I have to agree with "of doubtful value". Disassembly and
 CA> careful cleaning would be more likely here but even then I
 CA> suspect the burner is just wearing out.

 RJT> This makes me wonder what's to wear out in one of those?

 JH> I dunno much about dying burner drives, but FWIW I have a few
 JH> boxesfull of "BAD" CD/ROM drives here, and the most common failures
 JH> have been either failure to spin up, or failure of the tray
 JH> eject/retract function.  Gots to get past those two before worry
 JH> about whether the drive will read/write or not.  If those functions
 JH> work, but it acts R/W flakey, I'd think the cleaning effort would
 JH> be the next step. 

Well,  the flaky behavior I've seen hasn't been either of those first two
things,  so I guess at some point I get to go in there and try and open one
of these up,  which is something I haven't gotten around to yet either.

I think I'll start with this one older one that I have here that's gotten
flaky,  and see what turns up in that one.

So how went the selling of the house,  the move,  etc.?  I did email you
about that a while back,  never got a reply.

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