wrote:

> I am using CD/DVD drives since the earliest days of CD-ROM drives. If I
> remember correctly I had my first drive in the early 1990's. I always
> closed my drives your way and never, ever, did a single drive die because
> of this. A few died from a bad case of acute CD-label detachment, though.
> More DVDs became (temporarily) unreadable because of using aforementioned
> labels.

Ah, good!
 
> Now, if you use the "emergency eject" mechanism when a CD is stuck by
> inserting a straightened paperclip into the "emergency eject hole"
> something is likely to give. Hopefully the stuck CD will become unstuck,
> but if you apply enough force something might actually break. So better
> pray to Anoia before trying this ;-)

Anoia indeed. This happened with my DVR - it ate one of my DVD-RWs. The disc 
is in the tray on the unit, and it absolutely refuses to eject. It -has- no 
emergency eject hole that I can spot. It's a useless DVR anyway (an old LG 
unit) that's got a very serious software bug that makes it virtually 
unusable if you record more than about 40 entries into its video library.

So I'm considering taking it out back and taking an axe and / or hammer to 
it to get my disc back.
-- 
Stefan Viljoen

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