Fortunately for you, then, is the fact that the vast majority of laptop
cd drives do not run faster than 16-24x.  I doubt you will find one that
runs at 48x, nevermind 52x anytime soon.

The reasons are for power savings, and that it's hard and expensive to
make a motor that small and that strong suitable for a laptop cd drive.

At one of my previous jobs they were creating active balancing equipment
for metal machining, grinders, and industrial fans.  The newest
balancers had to run at 10s of thousands of RPMs.  We didn't really
start testing them until we had a nice concrete room with thick windows
and a seperate operating area.  I thought it was funny that they didn't
protect the ceiling.  I can imagine the property owner's response to
viewing what would apear to be several holes in the roof above the
room.  Didn't hear of any unexpected failures during the remainder of my
time there.  Or, at least I didn't /hear/ any failures while I was there...

-Adam

Win Wiencke wrote:

><Dennis Crawley>
>
>
>>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 would not like to be packed together in an airplane when my seatmate's CD
>lets go as you describe.
>
><rant starts>
>I apologize in advance to those I may offend, but it's been a long hard week
>and my funny-bone briefly overtook my reason when an additional moral came
>to mind:
>
>"Pray that US Homeland Security doesn't get the notion that Western
>Civilization as we know it is at risk of annihilation from fragmentary CDs
>distributed by rogues at MCHP."
>
>Imagine containers at airport security with signs saying: "Please dispose of
>sharp objects and Microchip CDs before entering security..."
><rant off>
>
>Win Wiencke
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