On 07/08/2020 10:54 PM, deloptes wrote: > Last year I checked many backup cds from the past before throwing away. > Some written in 2002 were working and most written in 2007 were failing. I always write CDs/DVDs at 1/2 or a little more of the maximum speed of the drive or the disk, whichever is lower. It seems to get a better write than using the max speed, because I never have write failures, and I have disks that are almost 20 years old and still readable. On 07/08/2020 11:34 PM, Thierry de Coulon wrote: > I got some Samsungs that would never power on after a few years on the > shelf. Sometimes you can get an old drive to spin up by giving it a quick twist around the axis. The idea is to make the platters move a little; then sometimes it'll start. -- PGP key: http://homestead-products.com/pubkey.htm --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: trinity-users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: trinity-users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Read list messages on the web archive: http://trinity-users.pearsoncomputing.net/ Please remember not to top-post: http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/mailing_lists/#top-posting
