Re: reliability of dvd+rw

El Jueves, 24 de Agosto de 2006 17:35, martin escribi=F3:
> Hi,
>
> I thought I'd share with the list the problems of using +rw as an
> archive medium.
> Disks I've written about 6 months ago seem to have problems reading.
>
> Also even if you just mount media read only the seem to suffer from the
> laser reading and can degrade whist you use them, e.g. reading a part of
> the disk repeatedly causes the disk to fail at that point.
If you do read only.. it doesn't, I have very used discs about 6xs or more=
=20
months ago, and no problems about, just with 1, that start to have bad link=
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but was a hardware driver (usb-scsi) problem.
In fact there are many media, that has a cheap substrate that gots wiped wh=
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time tick, and of course dust on hardware produce the same...
> I might just be very unlucky but this seems true for a few types of
> media I own.
Not for me...... did you really buy all of the ceap ones?.
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> M

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Gustavo Guillermo P=E9rez
Compunauta uLinux
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