On Wed, 2009-05-20 at 22:28 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Wednesday 20 May 2009, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > >My computer is no longer able to read a CDROM with some fairly valuable > >data. I have been able to read this CDROM successfully in the past. > >... > >An attempt to get some data using cat fails: > ># cat /dev/sr0 > >cat: /dev/sr0: Input/output error > Can this drive still read other cd's? Also, if the cd really is scratched, > there are treatments to restore them at your local Wally World I believe. In > a one time pinch, you could use a century old darkroom technique we used for > scratched negatives since long before my time, rub a bit of the grease from > the side of your nose into the scratch. > > But I'd almost bet a new drive would read it as it is. The drive does read other CDs without trouble. It's almost new; I bought the system in March. Two other systems, both old but reliable won't read the CD either. The CD has no visible scratches; a little grease didn't help. Thanks - jon -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
