Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2003 15:17:48 +0200 (CEST) From: Soren Schmidt <sos@spider.deepcore.dk> To: Sean Kelly <smkelly@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Bryan Liesner <bleez@comcast.net> Subject: Re: ATAng - copying atapi CD Message-ID: <200309031317.h83DHmln009341@spider.deepcore.dk> In-Reply-To: <20030903131336.GA49238@edgemaster.zombie.org>
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It seems Sean Kelly wrote: > > > 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. Can you play those discs in your cd-rw drive ? -Søren
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