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TL;DR: My particular 5.25" drive started spinning probably a bit too fast when used externally on cheap USB + 12V to SATA adapter.

So I got a 5.25" drive from an old PC that I wanted to use as external with USB SATA adapter. I mean, I have a slim portable one, but 5.25" is cooler, you know.

It seems the controller, laser and tray motor are powered from 5V rail while spindle and laser assembly motors are powered from 12V rail.

In my case, 5V source was USB on laptop and 12V an external power supply with the cheap SATA adapter.

Reading worked, so I tried burning a DVD+RW. Brand new undamaged disc. Unfortunately, it seems the higher power required caused too much voltage drop and it kept failing. The drive states 5V@2A and 12@2.5A max. USB tester looked fine on source side, so probably the cheap SATA adapter's resistance was to blame.

Clearly, looking at the burned area, there wasn't enough power (or something else failed):
Stripes

Well, the failure was interesting. A few times it just stopped communicating and I had to unplug and plug it back in.
But the other one was that it would just spin up from 4x to god knows what high speed until K3b shown I/O error and ejected the disc after a couple seconds.

Last time I tried playing with it. When it started speeding up, I started toggling the 12V power supply. No I/O error, and K3b shown "0.8x", but I got bored of it and it probably wouldn't write anything readable anyway.
So, I turned the 12V back on and let it go full throttle. I/O error, and split second after it started spinning down a faint crack sound. And there we go, the disc started cracking, it would probably shatter soon after.

I also tried burning a Memorex DVD+R at 16x. I put front of the drive into a plastic bag to contain potential shrapnel, and started burning. Nothing interesting. I set it to 16x, it kept bouncing between 5 to 7x and produced nothing readable (just stripes again).

It says post anything, right?

I don’t condone violence of course, but if a fascist were to “somehow” die I wouldn’t mind :3

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If anyone needs a transcript I'll write it.

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Sauce Astolfo and Noi

I was listening to the System of a Down Album Toxicity again and the song Deer Dance had this lyric in it, and I had to share.

You can't be neutral right now, you have to fight back however you can.

Give the album a listen if you haven't, it's a banger and is still relevent to this day 24 years after it's release.

Image description: Pictured is Serj Tankian known as part of the band 'System of a Down', singing into a microphone and the text "You can't afford to be neutral on a moving train"

Just nineties people killing time with their public access channels and cathodic TVs and phone landlines.

If you don't know know what is this, please see this post: https://lemmy.eco.br/post/11096964

Explanation: the people of Sentinel Island refuse to communicate with other cultures, and kill outsiders on sight. They're the only culture untouched by the politics of the rest of the world.

Anything involving more than one person is political, so the only way to avoid politics is to kill everyone you meet on sight. But unlike the Sentinelese, you wouldn't be able to have any friends.

It would really be a shame if someone flooded the Department of Education's End DEI portal with fake tips, SQL injection, or good old Denial-of-Service attacks. We should totally not do that.