JEAN PARROT wrote in a message to ROY J. TELLASON:

 RJT> I made the mistake of trying to play a music cd in it that I'd 
 RJT> gotten from the library,  and that's when it started giving me 
 RJT> trouble... 

 JP> I really doubt that any CD could damage a reader, the CD medium is 
 JP> quite passive when inserted and read. My opinion !! 

Damage,  probably not,  but dirt?  The next time I tried to use it I got a
"no medium inserted" error message,  which on subsequent retries
went away.  Sure sounds to me like there's something in there that
shouldn't be,  something on the lens,  or whatever...

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