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? Message-ID: <19980318120201.47709@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <199803180100.TAA19692@nospam.hiwaay.net>; from David Kelly on Tue, Mar 17, 1998 at 07:00:50PM -0600 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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