[ILUG] Autoloading DVD-R drives? Linux software for creating DVD sets?

[Pádraig Brady]

Gary Pigott wrote:
> 3m onto concrete will deliver 2000Gs to a non-padded HDD.

3m?

Having witnessed a 10s old laptop hd being dropped
from waist height onto concrete (yes he signed the
credit card slip and then just dropped the disk),
I can confirm that it doesn't work after that.
However Ian Dowse¹ opened it up and popped back
the head arm into its slot and bobs your uncle.

Pádraig.

¹http://www.maths.tcd.ie/~iedowse/projects.html