Dear user

[goose-entity.livejournal.com]

How...

Wait..

.. the fhuh?

HOW did you get a standard sized CD *inside* the CDROM drive? The disk is *under* the CD platter!!! How is that physically possible?!!??

I... but.. I... NO! BAD USER! NO COOKIE! NO CONFUSING OF TECHIE ON FRIDAY!

Comments

[laptop-mechanic.livejournal.com]

At least they didnt mistake it for a disc changer and put 2 or 3 discs in the slot loading drive (I've had this happen numerous times in powerbooks, which is why I think slot loading drives have no business on computers of any kind). Or they mistook the drive for a jukebox and put quarters in it (which I've also had happen).

[greylady.livejournal.com]

Or they mistook the drive for a jukebox and put quarters in it (which I've also had happen).

I... wah...

I have to go cry now.

[lacey]

Or they mistook the drive for a jukebox and put quarters in it (which I've also had happen).

Oh my.

[pope-guilty.livejournal.com]

Or they mistook the drive for a jukebox and put quarters in it (which I've also had happen).

You cannot possibly think you can get away with mentioning that and not expanding on it. :)

[laptop-mechanic.livejournal.com]

Okay. Here's the story:

A girl brought in a 15" powerbook with an optical drive that wasnt working. There was a disc stuck in the drive. Now for those of you who dont know this, there is no such animal as a manual eject on this slot loading drive once it suffers any sort of mechanical failure. So you have to tear the machine apart to get to the drive, then tear the drive apart to get to the disc.

I did both of these things, and in addition to the disc that was stuck in the drive, I also found some change.

[ateji.livejournal.com]

...you have awesome stories that make me go O_O

Though I heard of a kid doing that to a Commodore 64's floppy drive back in the '80s--since his parents owned an arcade, it was pretty logical.

[mouser.livejournal.com]

PICTURES!

[goose-entity.livejournal.com]

I would, but all you would see is a partially disassembled optical drive...

[abstrak-tokatl.livejournal.com]

it happens... don't ask.

[major-error.livejournal.com]

Unless there is a very tall back on the tray, there's really nothing to keep a cd from getting in there except for the cd-sized depression in the tray.
The "clamp" only operates when the tray is in, and having opened a few malfunctioning drives, I can tell you there aren't any other physical precautions against a out-of-position cd except for gravity and that guide built into the tray...

[superbus.livejournal.com]

With me, this would have had a fun ending on Monday.

"I can't listen to CDs! You took out my CD drive!"
"Yes, because you're damaging hardware. You can't handle the simplest piece of hardware on your computer, so you can no longer use it"
"But I need to use CDs!"
"Prove you can handle it and call me back in a month". *Click*

[mashiroikaze.livejournal.com]

I'm so sorry.

The worst I've seen are a few instances of CD's ending up inside the case of the computer instead of inside the CD drive. And almost all of those were caused by slimline CD drives.

God, I hate those things.

I've also seen a couple instances of 3.5" floppies jammed in ZIP disk drives. Not once, but on two separate occasions. Ugggh.

[laptop-mechanic.livejournal.com]

Back in the Elder Days, I saw somebody cut down a 5.25" floppy to fit into a 3.5" drive. And then watched them melt down when it didnt work. Guess they should have had more than one copy of their thesis, eh?

[caira.livejournal.com]

/me puts tea down . . .

[forge.livejournal.com]

worst one I have seen:

they forced the floppy in to the drive and tried to eject it, when it wouldn't read.

after 20 frustrating minutes we figured out the entire box was upside down, thus so was the disk.

[dysan27.livejournal.com]

How about those multi-disk programs where when it needed the next disk it would say, "Please insert Disk X". Without actualy telling them to eject the disk in there. You can see where this leads :)

[forge.livejournal.com]

Yup...


"DOH!"

[trixtah.livejournal.com]

Oh yes. Our record was *five* 3½" floppies jammed into one drive. Just... amazing.

[calriddia.livejournal.com]

O.O HAHAHAH! WOW! Lusers never seem to amaze me!

[lovemonster.livejournal.com]

woah... i didn't even know that was possible!

[deadlychameleon.livejournal.com]

Actually, this happened to me with a portable DVD player. It was dumb, I realize this, but as I put the DVD into the drive, I happened to have it propped at an angle, and... yeah. DVD, into the body of the DVD player. And then the tray slides in over it. It was an easy fix with a screwdriver, but yeah, that's how it happens.