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HHB CDR-800 holding a disc hostage
Well I knew it had to happen one day.
Can't get the partially finalized CD-R out. This is that transport that also came out as a Fostex and Otari CD burner where you put the CD in upside down. Any body know of a secret manual open button or technique? Thanks, Ty Ford --Audio Equipment Reviews Audio Production Services Acting and Voiceover Demos http://www.tyford.com Guitar player?:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWaPRHMGhGA |
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HHB CDR-800 holding a disc hostage
"Ty Ford" wrote ...
Well I knew it had to happen one day. Can't get the partially finalized CD-R out. This is that transport that also came out as a Fostex and Otari CD burner where you put the CD in upside down. Any body know of a secret manual open button or technique? Is there not a tiny hold where you can poke a paper-clip to expel the tray? That is a common feature on most drives. While powered-down, of course. If not, you may have to disassemble the drive :-( |
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On Oct 19, 10:37*pm, Ty Ford wrote:
Well I knew it had to happen one day. Can't get the partially finalized CD-R out. This is that transport that also came out as a Fostex and Otari CD burner where you put the CD in upside down. Any body know of a secret manual open button or technique? Thanks, Ty Ford --Audio Equipment Reviews Audio Production Services Acting and Voiceover Demoshttp://www.tyford.com Guitar player?:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWaPRHMGhGA I'm going to assume that you've shut the machine down and rebooted? |
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Richard Crowley wrote: "Ty Ford" wrote ... Well I knew it had to happen one day. Can't get the partially finalized CD-R out. This is that transport that also came out as a Fostex and Otari CD burner where you put the CD in upside down. Any body know of a secret manual open button or technique? Is there not a tiny hold where you can poke a paper-clip to expel the tray? That is a common feature on most drives. While powered-down, of course. If not, you may have to disassemble the drive :-( There is no little clip hole. Often when CDs get stuck in drives it is because they aren't centered right and the cd is jammed against the front wall and keeping the tray from opening. Shaking the whole machine can get that settled. But on the CDR-800, the transport is specifically designed to keep that from happening... I have never had any issues like that on one of them. I think you're going to have to pop the case opening... and I'd pop the case if only to see what actually happened inside. The CDR-800 is really bulletproof mechanically... I am very surprised at this. --scott -- "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis." |
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On Mon, 20 Oct 2008 05:27:22 -0400, Richard Kuschel wrote
(in article ): On Oct 19, 10:37*pm, Ty Ford wrote: Well I knew it had to happen one day. Can't get the partially finalized CD-R out. This is that transport that also came out as a Fostex and Otari CD burner where you put the CD in upside down. Any body know of a secret manual open button or technique? Thanks, Ty Ford --Audio Equipment Reviews Audio Production Services Acting and Voiceover Demoshttp://www.tyford.com Guitar player?:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWaPRHMGhGA I'm going to assume that you've shut the machine down and rebooted? Yes, many times and then with various buttons pushed to see if there was a secret release. At one point it tried to resume finalization, got about ten more seconds done then locked up again. I did pop the cover, but didn't see any obvious place to mechanically release the disc. Regards, Ty Ford --Audio Equipment Reviews Audio Production Services Acting and Voiceover Demos http://www.tyford.com Guitar player?:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWaPRHMGhGA |
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Ty Ford wrote:
I did pop the cover, but didn't see any obvious place to mechanically release the disc. You probably have to remove the CD drive first, and them maybe take a cover off that. Might as well learn what makes it tick while it's not ticking. -- If you e-mail me and it bounces, use your secret decoder ring and reach me he double-m-eleven-double-zero at yahoo -- I'm really Mike Rivers ) |
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On Mon, 20 Oct 2008 12:35:45 -0400, Mike Rivers wrote
(in article ): Ty Ford wrote: I did pop the cover, but didn't see any obvious place to mechanically release the disc. You probably have to remove the CD drive first, and them maybe take a cover off that. Might as well learn what makes it tick while it's not ticking. Nope. Save this for the other 800 users. Heard from the UK. Power down. Pop the cover. As you look in from the front, down low on the left side is a small white, rounded, plastic stub. Push it to the rear. Drive elevates and pops open CD has a scar on the data side at the center. Probably explains why it took so long to run the setup. I think an errant bad disc may have been the cause. The machine, however, will not reset and still shows RESUME, even with no disc in, so I guess it's toast. My Mac CD drive ejects the scratched CD and the RCA CD-R recorder sees the scratched disc as a blank and wants to format it so it can record. I'm trying to get at least the first 20-30 minutes off the disc, if not all of it. Any ideas? Thanks, Ty Ford --Audio Equipment Reviews Audio Production Services Acting and Voiceover Demos http://www.tyford.com Guitar player?:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWaPRHMGhGA |
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Mike Rivers wrote:
Ty Ford wrote: I did pop the cover, but didn't see any obvious place to mechanically release the disc. You probably have to remove the CD drive first, and them maybe take a cover off that. Might as well learn what makes it tick while it's not ticking. It's not a discrete drive module on this machine. --scott -- "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis." |
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HHB CDR-800 holding a disc hostage
On Oct 20, 1:25*pm, Ty Ford wrote:
On Mon, 20 Oct 2008 12:35:45 -0400, Mike Rivers wrote (in article ): Ty Ford wrote: I did pop the cover, but didn't see any obvious place to mechanically release the disc. You probably have to remove the CD drive first, and them maybe take a cover off that. Might as well learn what makes it tick while it's not ticking. Nope. Save this for the other 800 users. Heard from the UK. Power down. Pop the cover. As you look in from the front, down low on the left side is a small white, rounded, plastic stub. Push it to the rear. Drive elevates and pops open CD has a scar on the data side at the center. Probably explains why it took so long to run the setup. I think an errant bad disc may have been the cause. The machine, however, will not reset and still shows RESUME, even with no disc in, so I guess it's toast. My Mac CD drive ejects the scratched CD and the RCA CD-R recorder sees the scratched disc as a blank and wants to format it so it can record. I'm trying to get at least the first 20-30 minutes off the disc, if not all of it. Any ideas? Thanks, Ty Ford --Audio Equipment Reviews Audio Production Services Acting and Voiceover Demoshttp://www.tyford.com Guitar player?:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWaPRHMGhGA sometimes with some Audio CD recorders/ players, you can put in a good disc, and let the machine read the Table of contents off the good disc... then leave the machine powered up, and mechanically open the door (using small tools of destruction like a small screwdriver or whatever it takes) and replace the good disc with the bad disc and hit play... the machine will (if you are lucky) proceed to play the bad disc using the TOC it stored from the good disc. The tracks will be all messed up of course but you just want to recover the audio. I know this works with the Philips CDR 560 recorders. Saved my butt once. Obviously you don't want to do this with your very best machine.. And of course its an analog transfer, not digital, but thats a lot better than nothing. If you find a machine that will do this, you can record another CD with one long track and use it to feed the good TOC to the machine before you do the swap, this will then play whatever is on the disc as one long track. or try this http://www.isobuster.com/ I tried the demo version but it didn't work for me.. The TOC bait and switch trick did work for me with the CDR 560. Let us know what you figure out. Mark |
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HHB CDR-800 holding a disc hostage
On Mon, 20 Oct 2008 13:25:16 -0400, Ty Ford
wrote: My Mac CD drive ejects the scratched CD and the RCA CD-R recorder sees the scratched disc as a blank and wants to format it so it can record. I'm trying to get at least the first 20-30 minutes off the disc, if not all of it. Any ideas? I've seen burner programs, like an early EZ CD Creator, read a disc with badly damaged TOC. Assuming that the missing TOC is what the Mac is complaining about, maybe a burning program (on another machine, if necessary) might read the data and allow recovery. Can't hurt to try, and good fortune. Much thanks, as always, Chris Hornbeck |
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On Mon, 20 Oct 2008 19:37:43 -0400, Chris Hornbeck wrote
(in article ): On Mon, 20 Oct 2008 13:25:16 -0400, Ty Ford wrote: My Mac CD drive ejects the scratched CD and the RCA CD-R recorder sees the scratched disc as a blank and wants to format it so it can record. I'm trying to get at least the first 20-30 minutes off the disc, if not all of it. Any ideas? I've seen burner programs, like an early EZ CD Creator, read a disc with badly damaged TOC. Assuming that the missing TOC is what the Mac is complaining about, maybe a burning program (on another machine, if necessary) might read the data and allow recovery. Can't hurt to try, and good fortune. Much thanks, as always, Chris Hornbeck My Mac won't mount the CD, so no program has a chance in opening it. Regards, Ty Ford --Audio Equipment Reviews Audio Production Services Acting and Voiceover Demos http://www.tyford.com Guitar player?:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWaPRHMGhGA |
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On Tue, 21 Oct 2008 11:00:56 -0400, Ty Ford
wrote: I've seen burner programs, like an early EZ CD Creator, read a disc with badly damaged TOC. Assuming that the missing TOC is what the Mac is complaining about, maybe a burning program (on another machine, if necessary) might read the data and allow recovery. My Mac won't mount the CD, so no program has a chance in opening it. I'm not clear what specifically "mount" means to a Mac, but *if* it means reading a TOC, and *if* a burning program's (maybe on a different, less helpful, machine) copy function can work without a TOC... There used to be a CDROM newsgroup (in the .comp band?) with a guy from Adaptec as a regular. Let me try to fire up my old computer and research the names, and I'll get back to ya. The Devil dwells in some details here that it seems nobody on this newsgroup knows much about. At least haven't produced a silver bullet. Arf. Much thanks, as always, Chris Hornbeck |
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Chris Hornbeck wrote:
On Tue, 21 Oct 2008 11:00:56 -0400, Ty Ford wrote: I've seen burner programs, like an early EZ CD Creator, read a disc with badly damaged TOC. Assuming that the missing TOC is what the Mac is complaining about, maybe a burning program (on another machine, if necessary) might read the data and allow recovery. My Mac won't mount the CD, so no program has a chance in opening it. I'm not clear what specifically "mount" means to a Mac, When a drive is connected or data media inserted in a drive for removable storage elements, if the Mac can "see" it, i.e., recognize the format, an icon for that item will appear on the "desktop", and the drive or media is then said to be "mounted". Maybe Ty's disk wants it doggy style. but *if* it means reading a TOC, and *if* a burning program's (maybe on a different, less helpful, machine) copy function can work without a TOC... Sounhack has been known to enable access to some screwed-up files. http://www.soundhack.com/freeware.php There used to be a CDROM newsgroup (in the .comp band?) with a guy from Adaptec as a regular. Let me try to fire up my old computer and research the names, and I'll get back to ya. The Devil dwells in some details here that it seems nobody on this newsgroup knows much about. At least haven't produced a silver bullet. Arf. Much thanks, as always, Chris Hornbeck -- ha shut up and play your guitar |
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"Ty Ford" wrote ...
My Mac won't mount the CD, so no program has a chance in opening it. That sounds exactly right. No operating system, Mac, PC, **ix, etc. will be able to mount a volume with a damaged or missing TOC. Dunno about the Mac world, but in PC-land there are ways to get around the operating system's provincial view of the mass storage volume. Clearly, if we are talking about a volume with a damaged or missing TOC, then whatever means we use to recover the un- indexed contents must go around the OS'es simplistic handling of the volume. |
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[[ "Ty Ford" wrote ... My Mac won't mount the CD, so no program has a chance in opening it. That sounds exactly right. No operating system, Mac, PC, **ix, etc. will be able to mount a volume with a damaged or missing TOC. Dunno about the Mac world, but in PC-land there are ways to get around the operating system's provincial view of the mass storage volume. Clearly, if we are talking about a volume with a damaged or missing TOC, then whatever means we use to recover the un- indexed contents must go around the OS'es simplistic handling of the volume. ]] Have you tried something called "Data Rescue", from Prosoft? http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/1133 and http://www.prosofteng.com/products/data_rescue.php You can try DR in "test mode" to see if it will be able to "see" the volume in question. If it DOES, the demo version gives you the opportunity to recover ONE file. If that works, it stands to reason that DR has a good chance of recovering MORE files - at that point, you pay the fee for the full version. - John |
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On Tue, 21 Oct 2008 23:35:51 GMT, Chris Hornbeck
wrote: There used to be a CDROM newsgroup (in the .comp band?) with a guy from Adaptec as a regular. Let me try to fire up my old computer and research the names, and I'll get back to ya. The newsgroup was alt.comp.periphs.cdr and the guy's name is Mike Richter. I've checked and the newsgroup has been driven into the ground. Mike had a persistent stalker, who apparently won. Happens, maybe too often lately. VOTE!!! all ye Americans. For whoever ye choose, but VOTE. (FWIW, I left work early to early vote today, and the line of cars outside the parking lot, complete with traffic cop, at the library (!) went out the drive, and then up the (five lane) street. I was definitely impressed. God bless America. Much thanks, as always, Chris Hornbeck |
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John Albert wrote:
Dunno about the Mac world, but in PC-land there are ways to get around the operating system's provincial view of the mass storage volume. Clearly, if we are talking about a volume with a damaged or missing TOC, then whatever means we use to recover the un- indexed contents must go around the OS'es simplistic handling of the volume. ]] In the Mac world, it's even easier, because the whole disk device can be viewed as a raw file which is mapped to the disk. So writing a program in user space which goes poking around on the drive isn't all that hard. Have you tried something called "Data Rescue", from Prosoft? http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/1133 and http://www.prosofteng.com/products/data_rescue.php You can try DR in "test mode" to see if it will be able to "see" the volume in question. If it DOES, the demo version gives you the opportunity to recover ONE file. If that works, it stands to reason that DR has a good chance of recovering MORE files - at that point, you pay the fee for the full version. Yes, this is the kind of thing you're going to need to do, if you can get anything at all. If you have a lot of money, you can try talking to the guys at Ontrack Data Recovery, who are experts at hand-repair of damaged filesystems. The nice thing about the CD is that it really isn't an actual filesystem, it's just bulk data. So you can start reading anywhere and stop reading anywhere and as long as you read sequentially you will have some audio data. The CD was designed to be played back with the simplest possible combinational logic in the player, which is a big help when you need to recover data from a bad one. --scott -- "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis." |
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