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_at_FreeBSD.org | http://www.sean-kelly.org/Received on Wed Sep 03 2003 - 04:13:38 UTC
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