CD Drive issue...

[Simon_Carr]

Okay, my Centris is back up and running, but I'm continuing to have problems with the CD drive in the system. It is an original CD drive with Caddy (I think it was made by Sony), and when I started having problems with the Centris, I inserted a System 7.5.3 CD in a caddy into the drive. To cut a long story short, I simply cannot eject the CD now: the drive is trying to eject when I request it, but the caddy seems to be stuck.

Does anyone know if there is a way I can get this caddy and CD out? I have tried to push the force eject button using a paper clip in the small hole to the right of the caddy aperture, but although the drive is trying to do something, it just seems to be stuck.

I'm not sure if I can open up the CD drive.... Any tips before I potentially break it?!

 

[Macdrone]

did you push with a long enough pin to bottom it out and it didnt pop out at all?  If it didnt sounds like it has gone bad.  Might just have to pull it apart.

 

[Simon_Carr]

I think there is something not right with the cd-rom... I removed the SCSI but kept it powered, and out popped the caddy....

Having thought I had got my Centris back up and fine, when I reconnected the CD rom drive, it all went pear shaped again! Back to having a ? Floppy disk warning on startup. So, having re- re- re-installed the system, I have left the CD drive disconnected, and the Centris seems to be working okay again. I'm wondering whether I have lost a jumper on the back of the drive for the SCSI id, and that the system is trying to boot from CD, which of course is cannot do?

That's my guess anyway... Does anyone have a Sony CD Rom drive that they can take a pic of, so I can see if I am missing a jumper?

 

[Macdrone]

all the apple drives are sony so ill take a look

 

[Macdrone]

all my non caddies are first 3 and last, my caddy drive is first, fourth(id2) and second to last(prevent/allow).

 

[Simon_Carr]

Thanks for that information, Macdrone; it looks like I may have found an issue, as my CD-Rom drive had jumpers for all 3 SCSI ID positions (0,1,2). I have just removed the jumpers from 0 and 1, and the Centris seems to have booted up okay so far. I still need to check that everything is working, but so far so good.... A case perhaps of too many, rather than too few jumpers? It does beg the question why this has become a problem recently, rather than for all the years of potentially confused SCSI IDs...

 

[Simon_Carr]

Nope! Still getting problems with the CD-Rom drive connected.... The Centris starts up okay, and then can open up software (in this case the Apple Personal Diagnostics tool), but then it seems to hang. If I try to Force Quit, the system software just hangs, although  Command-Alt-Esc still opens up a force quit dialog box, but does nothing. If I dont have the CD connected, it seems to run just fine!

Confused....

 

[Macdrone]

Some of those cd caddy drives people have been posting recapping the externals, which is the same internal drive you have, so it may be time.