Optical drive laser misalign guidance
Garrett Cooper
youshi10 at u.washington.edu
Wed Jul 13 08:16:17 GMT 2005
Not sure if this is the best location to ask, but I have to see anyhow...
Just wondering if anyone has had any verifiable experience with
misaligned lasers in optical drives, and I was curious how they fixed
the issue if they got that far.
I'm asking since I have 2 optical drives-both DVD+/-RW and both have
apparently failed to the point where they will either barely read
CD-R/Ws and not read DVDs at all (Liteon SOHW-1633S), or not DVD media
and CD media is read slowly (Sony DRU-500A). The other option I
considered it being is powering issues, but-as requested before-I was
wondering if anyone had similar issues with misaligned lasers, what the
symptoms were exactly, and how they possibly remedied the problem(s). I
would rather not toss these drives in a dumpster since they were rather
expensive and still work somewhat.
I have updated the firmware to the latest and greatest as per Lite-on
and Sony's website, but it hasn't affected the overall operation of the
drives.
Many thanks!
-Garrett
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