9 Mar
2006
9 Mar
'06
10:19 a.m.
Chuck Guzis wrote:
On 3/9/2006 at 11:40 AM Doc Shipley wrote:
Yeah, scratching the optical layer off is pretty much the end of the
story.
I hate labels, though. They might protect the disk, but there's no
way to get them on perfectly balanced and that trashes readers in a hurry.
Both recommend plain ol' Brasso as the best
available CD repair. The
burningissues page even used some pretty good metrics for comparison.
In this case, the CD-R fell "jelly side down" (i.e., the top of the CD got
scratched through to such an extent that I could see daylight through it).
I've wondered if simply using a CD label might avoid the problem--if the
adhesives in the label backing didn't attack the CD-R itself after a few
years... I suppose that what bothers me most about the CD-ROM
format is its
insistence on using the "spiral groove" audio recording layout. While this
makes for nice mass production, I'dve much rather had CD-ROMs recorded in
concentric rings of data like a floppy. At least that way, one could seek
to a given track without worrying about what came before it. On most
CD-ROM drives that I know of, if the inner tracks are damaged, the CD won't
even load.
Hmmm. I hadn't really looked at it in that light, but you're right.
Still, "cheap and fast". I can afford to make two of everything, and
I do. At least.
In the DR business they say that not trusting your media is the first
part of making it trustworthy.
Doc