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

 JP>         Hello Roy, it is a lovely day today.

Yeah.

 RJT> I have a drive here that's giving me trouble as well,  and am
 RJT> wondering about the same thing.  Maybe get some kind of a cleaning
 RJT> disc?  I haven't looked into this stuff yet,  but should...

 JP> This is a device on a music system only. Not a computor device but 
 JP> I presume that the logic would also apply.

I have a boom box at work that's also trouble,  the thing works fine except
for the cd player,  which doesn't work for the most part.

 JP> I was worried about leaving a residue film if I used a cleaner of
 JP> any sort. That is why I asked here.

That seems like a pretty valid concern to me.

 JP> What I did was so easy. Take the thing apart to have access to the 
 JP> "eye" and gently wipe with a Q-tip. Go for it ! I can not see how 
 JP> a cleaning disk would cure this. The "eye" is not making contact 
 JP> like a floppy head would.

In the case of the boom box at work,  I don't have to take anything apart, 
it's right there on top.  With regard to the other device I mention above, 
it's still fairly new,  probably still under warranty,  and I don't think I
want to take it apart just yet if there are other solutions available to
me.  I made the mistake of trying to play a music cd in it that I'd gotten
from the library,  and that's when it started giving me trouble...

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