HI,

Has anyone else had issues with the NeXT external CD-ROM drives spontaneously failing? I have many of them, including a couple that I know worked a few years ago and have just been sitting in my house since then. However, now none of them actually seem to be able to mount a disk. They'll take in the cartridge, it'll spin for a bit, but it never mounts. The same CD (a NeXTSTEP 3.3 Patch2 disk) mounts just fine using the same cartridge in a 3rd-party drive on the same NeXTstation so it has to be the drives and not the computer or disc. Maybe there's some consistent age-related failure issue like with the ODs?

Any help will be apprecited.

I didn't find the right solution from the Internet.

References:
http://www.nextcomputers.org/forums/vie … 8499a219d5
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Thank you.