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Topic: DTS CD-Rom Drive Replacement - Brands?
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Don Bruechert
Mmmmmmmmm, bird!
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Posts: 340
From: Manitowoc, WI, USA
Registered: Jan 2003
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posted 02-15-2004 11:27 PM
I have been having problems lately with the bottom drive on our 2-Drive DTS6 unit. DTS seems to drop out intermittantly, yet pretty regular, when it is time for the movie to access content on the 2nd drive. Sometimes if I eject both disks and put them back in I can get it running again, and sometimes I can cycle power and when it comes back up it works, but most of the time it either refuses to eject the bottom disk, or I have to hit the eject button 20 or 30 times and wait up to 5 minutes for the disk to come out. I am pretty comfortable the drive has taken a dump.
Question is now, can I go out and purchase any good quality CD-ROm drive and slap it in this unit, or do I have to have a special one? I am thinking along the lines of whether or not todays modern EIDE interface drives are backward compatible with the "original" format interface that is on the unit... I haven't opened up the case yet and looked either, but the other possibility is that they are SCSI CD-Rom drives, which will really suck becaue those are still more expensive. The ones that are in there are caddy-style drives. I would probably replace the drive with a tray style just because that caddies are a pain in the ass. Our other DTS6 unit has tray-based CD-Rom drives.
I am sure it isn't the disks, and I have cleaned the heads.
Any information whould be appreciated.
Thanks, Don
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