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Date: Wed, 18 Mar 1998 12:02:01 +1030
From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net>, hardware@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: CD-R and Scanner recomendations for CD archiving of records?
References: <dave@persprog.com> <199803180100.TAA19692@nospam.hiwaay.net>
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On Tue, 17 March 1998 at 19:00:50 -0600, David Kelly wrote:
> "David W. Alderman" writes:
>>
>> Kodak discs definitely coat the laquer side with something you can write on.
>>  So
>> does Verbatim
>> and Ricoh.
>
> We've used about 400 blue Verbatim's at work so coated. You have to be
> careful when writing on the coated side else you'll ruin the disk.
> Apparently the layer written by the CD-R is just under the top coating.

Am I missing something here?  People keep talking about writing on the
coated side.  Why would anybody want to do that?  Surely you write on
the other side?

> Felt tip pens are OK. Anything sharp is sure to ruin the disk (I ruined
> the first bootable FreeBSD install disk I made, worked great before I
> wrote on it). It appears the top surface is more delicate than the
> bottom.

And I thought the bottom side was the coated side.

Greg

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