CD-ROM drive.

That is a bit wierd. Checked any limit switches for correct operation and switching and/or any optical ones (fluff...).

Is that "open/close switch" an electronic one or a mechanical one that releases the mechanisum allowing it to be opened manually?

If electronic maybe the hardware version just drives the stepper motors the required number of steps ignoring (some of?) the sensors.

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Dave Liquorice
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If you think of those old CD-ROM drives, they all had a switch for open close. And often a headphone socket. And an analogue sound output on the back. As well as a mechanical release - usually requiring a small screwdriver or opened up paper clip.

Not a stepper motor for the tray. Only two terminals.

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Dave Plowman (News)

I have a couple of old machines I?m about to junk, at least One has a CD ROM in it (can?t measure it from here)

If you haven?t found a solution in a couple of days, PM me and I?ll take a look.

firstname dot lastname at lastnamecommunications dot co dot uk

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cpvh

Can?t be too careful giving out your email address on USENET but on the face of it, this looks like a riddle too far...

Tim

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Tim+

I've had a valid E-Mail address here on Usenet for more than 20 years and get very little junk E-Mail sent to it, maybe one or two a week.

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Chris Green

Ditto. My comment about ?can?t be too careful? was tongue in cheek.

Tim

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Tim+

The email address I'm using here is actually valid too, and I occasionally clear out all the junk. But I never use it for real, hence the bit in my sig.

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Dave Plowman (News)

?Can?t be too careful giving out your email address on USENET but on the face of it, this looks like a riddle too far...

Tim ?

Well, at this end, it says the post is from ?Me?, but I assume youse all see my dear departed snipped-for-privacy@o2.co.uk address.

Which many (including dave?).

Know is one of the Chris Holmeses

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cpvh

Yup, that's what I see... and had picked up on the "Chris" from other posts...

but I had not seen (or at least not made the connection) on the surname

- although google groups can link the to together up to about 2013!

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John Rumm

This discussion on names reminds me......

I wonder if Matthew still walks among us in pseudonym form?

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cpvh

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