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1. roka (roka@pl.smuglo.li)'s status on Thursday, 22-Oct-2020 20:25:05 JST roka
   Revived my February 2004 combo CD drive. Turns out there were three issues since its failure in 2008/09: transmission belt driving the tray became misaligned (it still worked back then, just with pains; it's slightly frayed now so it will fail there eventually again), there was dog hair on the drive lock (it's why it scratched some discs, I guess, the assembly couldn't push the disc completely up) and the main data ribbon partially popped out of the socket on laser unit (weird since it has a lock but it was disengaged – some force caused it to rip out? :cirnoThink: ). It works and read discs on my K6 box but will likely be prone to laser misalignments. The lube on lazor driver rails is contaminated and flakey. Easily fixed in the future.
   • roka (roka@pl.smuglo.li)'s status on Thursday, 22-Oct-2020 20:29:37 JST roka

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     Of curiosities in its build, the microcontroller had a layer of thermal paste connecting it to the casing. Sadly, they sanded off the markings but I bet it's Hitachi/Renesas stuff.