Path: cdrom.com!barrnet.net!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!EU.net!ub4b!idefix.CS.kuleuven.ac.be!news.sri.ucl.ac.be!NewsWatcher!user From: jennens@chor.ucl.ac.be (Jean-Francois CORDIER) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.cd-rom Subject: Re: CD ROM: need it to be cleaned? Date: Mon, 01 Aug 1994 15:28:13 +0200 Organization: Catholic University of Louvain Lines: 30 Distribution: world Message-ID: References: <3196s3$5q9@crl2.crl.com> <20509bwb.14.2E390B6C@msu.edu> <31h8qu$g6s@bones.et.byu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: 130.104.125.11 I can see that my SONY CD drive isn't the only one to get hot. I've noticed that my drive wasn't getting hot when no used: that is I can turn on my computer for a day, the CD drive won't be hot (in fact it'll be slightly hot). If I use it, play a CD or two, it gets VERY hot. So, It's probably due to the motor. Now, the question is: IS IT OK FOR CDs TO GET THAT HOT? I know that when the temperature of the air increases the light propagation might be altered and then the reading of the CDs too. The drive would then have to oversample more and more and... sometimes, when the drive is too hot, oversampling won't be enough. That's what I have when I'm listening to CDs for more than 5 hours. The drive is not able to read the last track anymore. This is bad but non-destructive (though it OVERUSES the CD oversampler). But: IS HEAT DESTROYING TO THE CDs? I'd like to hear something about it. I'd like also to hear something about non-SONY CD drives. Are they hot too? J-F CORDIER =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= JF Cordier (jennens@chor.ucl.ac.be) 1, pl. L. Pasteur Universite Catholique de Louvain 1348 Louvain-La-Neuve Laboratoire de Chimie Organique de Synthese BELGIUM Tel. +32 10 47.87.58 Fax +32 10 47.41.68 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=