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From: Soren Schmidt <sos@spider.deepcore.dk>
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To: Sean Kelly <smkelly@FreeBSD.ORG>
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Subject: Re: ATAng - copying atapi CD
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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