A few questions about CD drives.

[aimeeandbeatles]

1. Okay, I've noticed that when a CD is spinning and I open it, I can hear it "spinning down" before it ejects. If somehow, you removed the thing that makes it spindown before it opens, would it come flying out of the drive?

2. Why would speakers pop when the CD drive is active? It happens with any disk, whether Tom Petty or Civ IV.

3. Is it true that if you have a slower CD drive, it's more likely to recover files from a scratched disc then a fast one?

 

[Genocidicbunny]

1. Okay, I've noticed that when a CD is spinning and I open it, I can hear it "spinning down" before it ejects. If somehow, you removed the thing that makes it spindown before it opens, would it come flying out of the drive?

2. Why would speakers pop when the CD drive is active? It happens with any disk, whether Tom Petty or Civ IV.

3. Is it true that if you have a slower CD drive, it's more likely to recover files from a scratched disc then a fast one?

1. You mean remove the motor? The Cd drive would be useless then
2. Your cd drive is likely hooked up to your sound card/motherboard. If you look, there should be a wire leading from the cd drive to somewhere on your motherboard or soundcard.
3. You already asked this in the other thread, wait for a reply there.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

1. I think I worded it wrong. I mean if it didn't spindown first, would it fly out?
2. Most likely. Or could be the weird electrical system in my apartment.
3. Oops, forgot.

One more: I was trying to install a game off a CD. And at first, it sounded like CD drives do when the disk is scratched, like its spinning back and forth. So I took the disk out to inspect, nothing. I put it back in and it installed properly. Has this ever happened to anyone here, and is there a logical explanation for it? (I'm thinking perhaps the motor seized up temporarily, and when I took the disk out, it unseized.)

 

[lndm]

1. I've seen broken drives do that and the disk just sits in the tray getting scratched 'till it stops.

2. The drive's mute function. There is a transistor at the output of the audio chain that pulls the output down to prevent pops and crackles under certain conditions. If the output is sitting slightly high with some stray DC, it will pop every time the mute is activated.

3. Yes, but there are other factors as well. Having a new (fresh) drive is one. Older drives were built well and did well here but are worn out now.