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Re:Making Playstation 1 Modchips (2018) by dugditches on Sunday November 29, 2020 @08:38PM (#25249915)
-The cheapest option was to just force the motor to stop spinning by hand

Ah, yes that's why I recall thinking doing the trick caused the disc drives to fail.

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Re:Making Playstation 1 Modchips (2018) by 737maxtw on Sunday November 29, 2020 @09:46PM (#25250271)
At least in the USA, most drive failures of early models (the ones that the swap trick worked on) were due to poor quality plastic carriages. Flipping the system upside down would help... for a time.
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