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| DATE | 2004-06-17 |
| FROM | From: "Steve Milo"
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| SUBJECT | RE: [hangout] Gene Wilder once said it best
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From: "Steve Milo"
To: "Inker, Evan" ,
"'Michael Richardson'" ,
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Subject: RE: [hangout] Gene Wilder once said it best
Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 19:33:31 -0500
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Tell me what you think I should ad? More technical detail may be limited to
seat-of-the-pants theory.
Steve
On Thu, 17 Jun 2004 21:58:19 +0100, Inker, Evan wrote
> Here, Here..I second Mike's idea..
>
> Regards,
>
> Evan M. Inker (New York) x. 4615
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Richardson [mailto:MRichardson-at-abc.state.ny.us]
> Sent: Thursday, June 17, 2004 4:27 PM
> To: 'Steve Milo'; hangout-at-nylxs.com
> Subject: RE: [hangout] Gene Wilder once said it best
>
> As you killed the technight project. You have to do an Inservice on
> adjusting CD-ROM's. Congrads. -----Original Message-----
> From: Steve Milo [mailto:slavik914-at-mrbrklyn.com]
> Sent: Thursday, June 17, 2004 2:47 PM
> To: hangout-at-nylxs.com
> Subject: [hangout] Gene Wilder once said it best
>
> in Young Frankenstien.
>
> LIFE! LIFE! GIVE THIS BEING LIFE!
>
> You can imagine my relief when I was able to finish installing YDL
> 3.0.1 on my laptop last night. To quote another line from a movie:
> 'Its like a load has been lifted. Gone. Where is it? Who knows.
>
> So last night I decided to remove the back plate of my laptop and completely
> disassemble my the CDROM for good measure. I finally found screwdrivers
> small enough to facilitate disassembly of this unit. Well as I was removing
> one of the screws I noticed the smalles allen-wrench head I ever
> saw. Right at the front of the unit. I couldnt figure out what it
> was for so I removed it and found that it would accutate something.
> The only way to be sure was to remove the cover for the CDROM. Lo
> and behold this thing accutates the angle of the tracks the laser
> rides on. I wasnt going to bank all my hopes on whether this would
> actually solve my problem so I inspected the guts of the drive. But
> this revealed nothing that appeared to be out of the ordinary. I
> reassembled the CDROM and reinstalled it but left the back cover of
> the laptop off so I could use my extremely accurate device to precisely
> adjusted the laser. Yes I just happen to have just such a rare
> device, this device I have at my disposal are very far and few in
> between. Such devices are extremely hard to come by and are usually
> acquired through great cost in time and experience. They go by
> different names these devices and are very unique but once in
> possesion of such devices an owner is reluctant to relinquish it.
> My device I have named 'the seat of my pants', it has served me
> well. Yesterday, with the back end of my PB G4 exposed with the
> laptop itself sitting sideways on the table I utilized the seat of
> my pants to adjust somewhat successfully the laser. Atleast just
> enough to get YDL-3.0.1 to get fully installed without missing one
> single package! The process went something like this: Back out
> adjusting screw all the way. Power up laptop. Insert CDROM and
> listen for thrashing. Tighten adjusting screw until thrashing
> subsides. Machine boots into OS. Access CDROM and listen for
> thrashing. Adjust screw to and fro until thrashing subsides. Repeat
> steps A to eleventeen. Once machine boots into the YDL boot disk
> adjust with just the slightest increments. Fall asleep. Wake up a
> few minutes later rush to the laptop only to discover that nothing
> has gone wrong.
>
> My guess is the reason the CDROM was so problematic was because the
> angle of the laser to the CDROM was off causing the reflection to
> not return at the proper angle. The end result was the circuitry
> would overcompenstate causing the head to thrash while it tried to
> catch up with the reflection.
>
> I'm naming my laptop Young Frankenstein and catching up on some sleep
> tonight.
>
> Steve M
>
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