Hello
I have a Yamaha 2100S SCSI CDRW attached to my A4000T SCSI
controller, that has worked flawlessly for about 8 years. Recently,
however it has some problems in reading CDs.
The problems usually occur when the CDRW is unused for several
days (or weeks). During the boot the drive motor produce a noise
different from the usual, and weaker (the CDRW used to be a rather
noisy drive). Then, when a CD is put in, the motor does not start
moving and again "sounds" weaker. Often CDs are not recognized. Even if they
are, the drive motor produces a very weak noise
and as a result reading speed is low, sometimes directory or files
disappear from the CD, sometimes the content of read files is
garbage (but no error message from AmigaOS) and rarely AmigaOS
gives error messages.
If I continue (trying to) using the drive for 1-2 days, it slowly
begins to work better, the noise becomes louder, and finally the driver
returns to read CDs well. After these problems begin, I didn't dare
writing CDs.
I am afraid that the drive is slowly dying, due to its age, although
it has not been used a lot during its life (always connected to the
Amiga). Is there something I could try to avoid such problems, like
using some products for cleaning the driver lens?
