Using those mini CDs in a MacBook Pro aluminium - is the media going to be "lost" inside the Mac?

mac dvd compact-disc

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Solution 1

I do not recommend it. I've tried and failed at such a task. I ended up purchasing an external tray DVD drive.

You can also find 'brackets' that will convert the mini disc into a full size. Don't go down that road either.

Solution 2

No, you cannot. From http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2801:

The slot loading drives used in Apple portable computers work with only standard 120 mm round discs.

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Scorpion

Updated on September 18, 2022

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Scorpion over 1 year
I am running search query as following to bring results from Dynamics CRM. Search is working fine but it is brining results based on relevance. We want to order them in descending order of 'createdon' field. As we are displaying only 10 results per page, so I can't sort the result returned by this query.

Is there any way to order based on a field?
```
public IEnumerable<SearchResult> Search(string term, int? pageNumber, int 
        pageSize, out int totalHits, IEnumerable<string> logicalName)
{
    var searchProvider = SearchManager.Provider;
    var query = new CrmEntityQuery(term, pageNumber.GetValueOrDefault(1), pageSize, logicalNames);

    return GetSearchResults(out totalHits, searchProvider, query);        
}

private IEnumerable<SearchResult> GetSearchResults(out int totalHits, 
                 SearchProvider searchProvider, CrmEntityQuery query)
{
    using (ICrmEntityIndexSearcher searcher = searchProvider.GetIndexSearcher())
    {                
        Portal.StoreRequestItem("SearchDeduplicateListForAuthorisation", new List<Guid>());
        var results = searcher.Search(query);
        totalHits = results.ApproximateTotalHits;

        return from x in results
             select new SearchResult(x);
    }
}
```
- hicklypups almost 13 years
  
  +1 Good question. I looked at some photos, and it is one of those DVD drives that sucks in the media, right? I have never tried putting a min-cd in one of those.
- kobaltz almost 13 years
  
  I do not recommend it. I initially thought I could because the hardware I purchased was for a MacBook Pro, but it's software drivers were on a MiniCD. LAME!
- Somebody still uses you MS-DOS almost 13 years
  
  @KCotreau: Exaclty. I have some blank here I found.
- hicklypups almost 13 years
  
  My initial thought was "I would not do it", so as the other guys said, who actually have tried, don't.
- Moab almost 13 years
  
  No, ...encrypted.google.com/…
- bwDraco almost 13 years
  
  Related: MacBook doesn't recognize oddly shaped disk and Use a slot-load drive with smaller disc
dvhh almost 13 years

short answer would be to use an external drive
Somebody still uses you MS-DOS almost 13 years

@kobaltz: What you mean by "failed"? Did you lost the cd inside the mac?
kobaltz almost 13 years

Lost sort of implies not being able to find. I was able to find, but was no easy feat. I turned off the laptop and held it vertically. With a few gentle shakes, the MiniCD fell out. And if by gentle, I mean if my laptop were a child, I'd be in jail for abuse.
Chris Johnsen almost 13 years

Also: Apple’s HT2446: Using nonstandard or irregular sized discs in optical drives (the now common internal, “slot loading” drives do not support non-standard shapes/sizes, but certain “flat carrier tray” drives do support them).
Scorpion almost 9 years

thanks. Actually I am searching multiple queries like (kbArticle, Webpages, Incidents etc). So If I am using QueryExpression it will be very expensive query I think.
James Wood almost 9 years

Well how does Lucene retrieve data from CRM? Presumably either via the a web service call - in which case it will have the same performance concern. Perhaps it's going direct to SQL? In which case you apply a order to the SQL query. Given Lucene is a search engine library I would be surprised if it doesn't support ordering of results. It's not clear where the actual problem is here.
Scorpion almost 9 years

No, I don't think Lucene supports ordering. lucene.apache.org/core/2_9_4/queryparsersyntax.html#Fuzzy Searches
James Wood almost 9 years

How does Lucene get the data it then searches on?
Scorpion almost 9 years

ADX Portal's SearchProvider is using Lucene and I can't confirm that how are they querying underneath but they must be using CRM Web Services. The search provider can index any entity that has been customized with a view with the name "Portal Search".
Scorpion almost 9 years

Even if I run Query Expression to extract results from all the entities in question, how the paging will work?