Asian1 advised:
I read several case of Exploding / shattered CD inside a high speed CD-ROM drive(faster than 48X).
...Is this a hoax or a real case?
:-) I've had trouble with my Apple® PowerBook®'s CD drive. The drive's spindle's low mass makes it very critical that the CD is balanced correctly. One software title that I use frequently requires that the CD be in the drive when the program runs. This saves room on the hard drive, but mostly it's done that way to deter piracy, I think. The problem is, the drive rattles so badly, the computer cannot always recognize that the CD is present, and the sofware won't continue. One solution was to stick little round gummed lables to the surface of the CD, near the rim, to act as trim weights; much like the trim weights used to balance a wheel when new tires are put on. It helped a little, but not enough.
;-) Ultimately, I found an older, (slower,) external Apple SCSI CD ROM drive at a local charity thrift store. I hook it to the PowerBook® whenever I use that title.
