[pchelpers] Re: cd bursts in cd rom

Hiya! I did say I was clueless §;o)

Tonia

 --- TekPhobia@xxxxxxx wrote: > In a message dated
8/12/01 10:13:45 PM Pacific
> Daylight Time, 
> ltonwannabe@xxxxxxxxxxx writes:
> 
> 
> > I thought that speed of a drive shouldn't affect a
> CD
> > as it doesn't spin like a harddrive but is read
> (or
> > written to) using a level 1 laser beam. But anyway
> > it's a pretty unusual situation Jackie has there.
> I'm
> > dying to know what caused the CD to 'explode' and
> how
> > to prevent such a thing happening again.
> > 
> > Clueless Tonia
> > 
> 
> Your first statement is rather confusing. A CD
> doesn't spin like a harddrive? 
> They both spin in a circular fashion and the laser
> is irrelevant. According 
> to what I've read, a REALLY fast CD-ROM spinning a
> warped CD can cause it to 
> "explode." The centrifugal force of a fast (>=52x)
> cd-rom drive is quite 
> high. So, I'm assuming in Jackie's situation, the CD
> was most likely slightly 
> warped.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Tim Hamel
> 
> 
>  

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