Cleaning an external SCSI burner
As usual, I cannot be responsible for any damage to
your machines when you will experiment the following
tutorial.
The problems:
- aleatory burning process
- aleatory checking burned data process
- and, last but not least, error messages like:
1) shutdown the Mac.
2) shutdown the burner.
3) remove its power plug and the SCSI cable.
4)
We can see that the aeration's holes are partially
obstructed.
5)
Top yellow arrows show the screws to be removed, the one
under another obstructing agglomerate of dust.
6)
We upturn the burner: 4 screws again (big yellow arrows).
In this model, all the screws are the same.
The yellow small arrow, again, points to an agglomerate
of dust.
7)
Next the 4 screws which clamped the burner onto its
craddle. Here only the two first ones on one side.
The same screws on the other side.
... Sorry for this bad picture ;-).
8)
Cables to be unplugged, from left to right:
1) audio.
2) SCSI identifiers (caution: in my burner two separated,
but superimposed, rows of cables).
3) cable which connect the burner to the terminating
switch.
4) SCSI cable itself.
5) (not an the picture) the power cable.
9)
The obstructed aeration's holes seen from inside now...
10)
Bulk of agglomerated dust...
11)
... now outside the machine!
12)
Now, as the inside of the machine is cleaned...
Eject the tray (left yellow arrow) with the help of the
well known macintosh first emergency tool: the trombone!
(right yellow arrow).
13)
Push on the plastic lug (yellow arrow) to unlock the
cache.
14)
Remove the two cruciform screws (near the backside) to
extract the cover.
15)
Two more lugs to unhook the beast ;-).
16)
Yellow arrow: the lens to be gently cleaned ! Some will
say that the use of a cleaning CD is enough to remove dust
on this kind of lens.
However, I discover that for burners, this is not often
the right tool... more even if the burner is located in a
smoking area!
-> so: cotton bud with isopropylic alcohol ;-).
The blue arrow points to the axis on which slides the
head.
You can clean this axis with a soft tissue impregnated of
sewing machine oil. This is an important operation,
especially if you face problems when burning big sized cds
and not when burning cds with a small quantity of data.
17)
The tools... but isopropylic alchohol, cotton buds and
soft tissue not shown ;-).
As usual, follow the instruction above in a reverse order
to rebuild the burner.
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