CD RW Drive refuses to stay closed

"Rajesh Dugar" wrote in message

My Sony CDRW CRX195A internal EIDE drive on a Windows 2000, Intel
Celeron machine refuses to stay closed. When I close it with or
without a CD, the drive closes, and after a second, opens up again. I
can hear a snapping sound when the drive locks, but in unlocks and
sends the tray out again.

It is recognized by the OS and there is no problem reported from a
software perspective.

Any ideas what could be wrong, and how to fix it?

Here is what happened. I mis aligned the tray when open, but bumping
against it, so I opened it and set it right. But after assempling the
drive, it behaves as above. HELP!

The micro switch or other sensor which detects when the tray is closed
is failing to do so - the electronics thinks the tray is jammed and
reverses the motor.

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Brian Gregory [UK] wrote:

"Rajesh Dugar" wrote in message

My Sony CDRW CRX195A internal EIDE drive on a Windows 2000, Intel
Celeron machine refuses to stay closed. When I close it with or
without a CD, the drive closes, and after a second, opens up again. I
can hear a snapping sound when the drive locks, but in unlocks and
sends the tray out again.

It is recognized by the OS and there is no problem reported from a
software perspective.

Any ideas what could be wrong, and how to fix it?

Here is what happened. I mis aligned the tray when open, but bumping
against it, so I opened it and set it right. But after assempling the
drive, it behaves as above. HELP!

The micro switch or other sensor which detects when the tray is closed
is failing to do so - the electronics thinks the tray is jammed and
reverses the motor.


I've also seen this occur on drives (CDROM's not CDRW's though) that have a
broken or loose gear (a really tiny gear involved too) and sliding the gear
back on or glueing it back together and putting it back in the drive fixes
the problem.