Modern drives perfroms some small amount of vibration analysis on the
CDs, and won't spin very fast if there's excessive vibration.
Therefore, in order for a disc to shatter, you'd have to have a
well-balanced, but flawed disc in some way.  Lately I simply copy the
disc image to the hard drive (using blindread/blindwrite for cds,
dvddecrypter) and then use daemon tools to emulate a dvd-rom drive.
Much faster, but requires quite a chunk of HD space.

I'm glad to hear you weren't hurt.  Sharp pieces of cd can be...
unpleasant...

-Adam

Dennis Crawley wrote:

>Hi.
>
>I was reading the AN545 when a big BANG was heard and pieces of the CD were
>spat out fast from the CDROM. I've found CD pieces three and four meters
>from the PC.
>
>I was lucky, because I usually work at a few centimeters from the PC in the
>same plane of the CD.
>
>Moral:
>Don't left CDs inside
>Reduce the maximum CDROM speed (at 25000RPM CDs explode!)
>Avoid staying in front the PC.
>Use high quality CDs
>Don't insert very old CDs in 52x CD-ROM.
>Don't insert cracked CDs.
>
>Add what you consider safer.
>
>Regards,
>Dennis Crawley
>Argentina
>
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