On Thursday 21 May 2009, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: >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 How old is the CD, and is it pressed or burnt? There are stories going around that even pressed ones have a short lifetime. I lost one of my later Johnny Cash disks a year ago. Looking at it, it looks like it was never recorded, its all gone. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) The NRA is offering FREE Associate memberships to anyone who wants them. <https://www.nrahq.org/nrabonus/accept-membership.asp> Better late than never. -- Titus Livius (Livy) -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
