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From: russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: CD Porta Drive from CD Technologies?
Message-ID: <1991Apr7.045416.17827@eng.umd.edu>
Date: 7 Apr 91 04:54:16 GMT
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In article <1991Apr5.044349.24418@eng.umd.edu> tgoose@eng.umd.edu (Jason Garms) writes:

>The only problem I have ever heard of with the Apple CD ROM player comes
>from the fan.  From my understanding, the original models had a fan which
>SUCKED dirt into the mechanism which caused problems(dirt on a laser read
>head).  This problem is fixed by an Apple Authorized upgrade.  This upgrade
>entails cleaning the unit and REMOVING the fan(sounds kind of like a
>downgrade to me).  Anyway the new CD ROM units don't come with fans so the
>problem is no longer... (plus they are much quieter!)

There is another problem I have found with the early Apple CD Roms (and
possibly later ones too...)  If you set something on top of them, the RF shield
will sometimes deform enough to short out the circuit board on top--  which
causes the drive not to work UNTIL you open it up to look inside...
--
Matthew T. Russotto	russotto@eng.umd.edu	russotto@wam.umd.edu
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