From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 3 06:13:38 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CAE8716A4C0 for ; Wed, 3 Sep 2003 06:13:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from edgemaster.zombie.org (edgemaster.creighton.edu [147.134.112.68]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C1C4A43FF2 for ; Wed, 3 Sep 2003 06:13:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from smkelly@FreeBSD.org) Received: by edgemaster.zombie.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 047C639839; Wed, 3 Sep 2003 08:13:36 -0500 (CDT) Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2003 08:13:36 -0500 From: Sean Kelly To: Bryan Liesner Message-ID: <20030903131336.GA49238@edgemaster.zombie.org> References: <20030902124217.L935@gravy.homeunix.net> <1062568112.600.9.camel@klotz.local> <20030903070959.G465@gravy.homeunix.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030903070959.G465@gravy.homeunix.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i cc: FreeBSD Current cc: Martin Subject: Re: ATAng - copying atapi CD X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2003 13:13:38 -0000 On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 07:11:53AM -0400, Bryan Liesner wrote: > On Wed, 3 Sep 2003, Martin wrote: > > > Am Di, 2003-09-02 um 18.56 schrieb Bryan Liesner: > > > dd then gets slower and slower until it seems to grind to a halt. > > > > I have this problems everywhere (not only ATAng), if I'm trying to > > read some of my really old CD-Rs. You should know that they are aging. > > > > Check the surface of the CD-R (the surface is actually the label!). > > On few CD-Rs which have been in my car the label begins to break > > in the outter areas. This can have several reasons: > > - too much UV light (sun) > > - too high humidity > > - and also touching the CD-R on the outter area while holding it > > > > If you notice that your CD-R label looks strange and if you need > > the data, you should backup it fast. > > > No, we're talking about brand new, factory pressed, audio CDs. And on top of that, my Windows XP machine's DVD-ROM was able to raed my *commercial audio CDs* perfectly while the CD-RW in the FreeBSD machine was only able to read about 95% of the discs before it just got stuck. -- Sean Kelly | PGP KeyID: D2E5E296 smkelly@FreeBSD.org | http://www.sean-kelly.org/