Playstation 2 fat disk reading

[particleman]

I'm setting up a vintage gaming area, Win98/ old consoles. I have cleaned and lubed the drive drawer and cleaned the entire box. The issue is it takes a long time to read disks I  changed the laser still the same issue. I put in a disk the drive spins up the laser flashes one time the drive spins for about 30 seconds and stops and then, nothing. It sits not spinning/no laser for about 50 seconds EVERY time.  Then the disk spins up, instantly is found and plays. From what I have seen this should not take that long and the disk should spin up and play the first time. This is a 30001r if that helps.

[Reformatt]

Do the spindle and sled motors spin freely? Given the age, the lubricants are usually gone by now and when mixed with dust make them pretty tight. Also look for dead spots in the motors too. I had nothing but trouble with replacement lasers on old PS2's years ago. They were all dud out of the box usually.

[particleman]

Thanks for the reply. I ended up soft-modding with HDloader and Open-PS2-Loader. I ordered a NIB 250GB, 7200RPM, IDE Barracuda and ripped all my games to the drive. Loads fast now. I would have blamed the laser but I never get a disk read error just long load time and it was exactly the same with the old laser. The whole drive was tore down  lubricated and cleaned. I don't usually like to leave things not working 100% but this I can live with. It plays CD's  and DVD movies with no issue except the minute and 30 second load time and using the HD is a huge improvement with in game loading.   It was a fun project.