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Date:	Tue, 20 Jul 2004 12:56:33 PDT7
From:	"J. R. Fox" <jr_fox@pacbell.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: SCOUG CD of the month

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Tom Brown wrote:

> Is anyone else having problems reading the SCOUG CD?
>
> My copy will not read in any of my 4 drives (CDROM, CDRW, & DVDRW).

Hi Tom,

It might help if you could be more specific. Some "unreadable" CDs
can't be accessed in the drive at all. With others that exhibit
problems, you may go to do something with a particular file or group of
files, and they just bring up CRC or sector errors, but a lot of other
stuff on the CD is still usable.

Well, this is curious. I hadn't tried to read it until your message.
Just put it into my Plextor 12/10s burner. There, it seemed to access
rather slowly, but I could view the dozen files I tried at random, from
various parts of the CD, including peering into a couple of Zip
archives. Next, I moved it to the (older) Plextor Ultraplex-32
reader. Nothing but CRC errors & timeouts. I might be inclined to
think that the laser lens on the Ultraplex needs cleaning, or is
running down on its service life . . . but most other CDs I have can
still be read on it. Next, I will try it out on the DVD unit in the
Shuttle, when I hook that up again later today. (I don't do the KVM
thing here. It's one computer set up at a time.)

This is interesting, in view of my discovery (mentioned here,
previously) that 3 of the SCOUG CDs I have (from 2002 ?) were now
unreadable here, on any drive.

Jordan

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