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Kathy- I appreciate your and Jerry's loyalty and your kind words. (Bob's too, but I have other ways of telling him) But look, don't waste your time trying to teach pigs to sing (as the saying goes) unless you're getting as much amusement out of this as I am. It's…
I will look into the Smartdrive question for a paper I'm writing for OSTA. It's about optimizing a host machine for CD-Recording, and the chair of the Physical Compatibility subcommittee strongly recommends turning Smartdrive OFF, as well as any other programs and TSRs that may be running in the background.
>>what I got….was simply a kick in the stomache, a bop on the head, and was effectively called a liar >>The attack was direct and frontal. >>I was simply attacked (truly–go back and look) >>it was a response simply designed to attack and humiliate. >>an obtuse, destructive, antagonistic counter to…
>>How about books? They require more care than CDs, but at least they can be read back by anyone literate in the language, no special equipment required and no standards to meet. Some are still being read centuries later. Perhaps I should have specified _electronic_ medium.
>>This makes me wonder if this mess is a driver problem as opposed to a hardware problem. More likely a combination. A driver can't improve the error correction firmware. Win95 effectively rewrote all of the drivers for the most popular drives, rather than use the drivers supplied by the manufacturers,…
>>Thanks for the reply, but it was actually Scott Bracken who wrote the message you replied to. In one day's use of the One-Off CD Shop's account I used to use he managed to confuse at least three or four people . Oh, darn. I just went back to the…
#Archival life – CD-R
Message #118294
>>While everyone's seem to have heard of Kodak's (gold dye) guarentee of 100 years life, I'd be interested to see where the mere 20 years on cyanine (green dye) for archival came up? I think I've found at least one source for this idea: Mitsui Toatsu's marketing literature states: "The…
>>First of all, thanks for the great information in your posting! Yes, isn't it amazing what good information one can get when one asks with a modicum of courtesy?
>>As for being open minded: I listen and I try to be reasonable. Out of all the nonsense in your message, this leapt out at me. You "listen" and "try to be reasonable". If you listened – in this case, read – you would know that I am a woman…
(Here we go again) PMFJI means "Pardon Me For Jumping In". Alternatively, PMJI means "Pardon My Jumping In". Both initializations are used online when someone "jumps in" to a conversation between two other people.
>> What's your opinion – would we have better luck using 63 minute discs than 74 minute ones? Or will the same problems crop up, regardless of media type? The outer portion of the disc is the hardest to mold and the hardest to read. I'm not sure if this…
>>Are any of you familiar with the DCA Verification System (Doug Carson & Associates I believe)? Is a Compare issued through a premastering software as comprehensive as this type of disc check? Apparently, the DCA test will regenerate the EDC and ECC. Is this dependent on the CD writer that…
G,D&R=Grin, duck, and run. There's a comprehensive list of online acronyms and emoticons (like ;->) in the library of the Writer's forum.
>> I read an article someplace that told me I could run the thing under water (unplugged of course:-) wait for it to dry…. it worked Wish I'd read that article. I took mine apart and cleaned it with alcohol and canned air…it didn't work.
>>The degree of technicality that you bring to this discussion clearly demonstrate your ability to test people for driving licenses. As to helping solve a fery difficult, costly, and frustrating problem I have no evidence to indicate that you have much qualification. You have been informed by not only me,…
>> if I remember right there's a recommendation in the yellow book saying there shall be only one mode 1 track on a CD. >>So if drives do not read mode 1 multisession disks they are completely according to the standard following even all the recommendations. As I said, there…
>>DK: NO. That is not true. We have no evidence that the CD-ROM disks that we are burning work reliably in other drives. We only know now that they don't work in Mitsumi drives.>We are having a very similar experience. We have a lot of Mitsumi drives and they have…
>>The simple fact is that Mitsumi drives do read silver disks, and do a poor job on gold ones. Like it or not, this is much more of a problem for the gold disk people than it is for the Mitsumi people. See my message to Katherine Cochrane, #118076. To…
>>"PMJI" I guess but it's not the sentence structure they taught at my school.
>>So, we need reliable CD-R technology. Blame the CD-R drives, but they work just fine for silver disks! You need reliable CD-ROM drives, too. Conversely, you could blame the CD-R discs, but by your own account, they work just fine in other CD-ROM drives.
>>isn't the requirement to read standard formats a standard? I'm not questioning the acknowledged expert here; if you say it isn't a standard, I'll believe it, but I'll be durned if I'll understand it! Yes, the requirement to read standards is a standard, but there are many ways to implement…
>>PMFJI, I think Dana's keyboard burped, Not this keyboard. I haven't spilled any beer in it – yet. I spilled wine in the last one, and it slurred the words.
>>I think one thing that has done this industry no good is people in PC and Windows magazine ect writing on what should be done to make good CDs. These are writers not people in the "know" Hear, hear!!! You're going to love my September column.
>>in fact, some people say there aren't any standards that apply to players (but I don't believe that.) Believe it. I've never seen or heard of a standard for players, just for discs and file formats. The players have to read them and write them, but how the manufacturers implement…
PMJI=Pardon my jumping in.
>>So what does _that_ do to the reflection for the laser?
>>What are you trying to do with the software that you don't like? All I a m trying to do is create audio CDs from old tapes and LPs. PMJI – but have you considered how many remastered, high quality audio CDs you could buy for what it would cost…
#Plasmon Daisy-chain?
Message #117727
Has anyone heard of or done daisy-chaining of the Plasmon RF410x drives? They say you can chain as many as six together as simultaneous targets, but we have found no software that supports this. What's the story? Has anyone used the "chained" JVC system? Any information would be helpful. TIA.
Thank you for the confirmation.
>>Someone can tell me if there is a physical difference between a recordable CD Audio and a CD Rom? There is a physical difference between a recordable CD and any type of pressed CD. There is no physical difference between types of pressed CDs. Pressed CDs are made of polycarbonate,…
>>Do you know if WinNT is going to support Joliet as well? Nope, I don't know. It makes sense that it would, because to my knowledge, WinNT does not use MSCDEX as a redirector, so there must be built-in CD-ROM support. >>Also, if I create a CD using this (assuming…
>>Yeah Pinnacle hasn't come through for me when I needed them to but it is partly my fault for not having enough time to focus on the one problem and get it resolved. I just can't believe how complicated life is becoming. That strikes a chord with me. I've been…
>>We'll see, I really am curious how they are going to handle the long file names. Win95's Joliet will support Unicode, the ISO 10446 spec for a 16-bit character set. CDFS, Win 95's replacement for MSCDEX, will act as a "receiver" for Joliet. CDFS is not ISO 9660-strict, allowing for…
>>how do Toshiba CD readers work in general? IMNSHO, Toshiba CD-ROM drives are the best, fastest, most robust and reliable drives available, and have been since 1989. (I still have two 3201s that work fine, and recently bought a 3501.) I've never had a problem reading CD-Rs in Toshibas. Congratulations…
>>OK, gang, now's the time to discuss the difference between "standard" and "proprietary format" Been there, done that, took the bandages off already. I'm following this with great interest, nonetheless.
>>Last time I looked, Kodak wasn't prosecuting them for it. I noticed that, a couple of years ago. Seems rather strange to me, too.
>>But nothing except market pressure can enforce a standard, and when neither the manufacturers nor the consumers completely understand the standards, that's not likely to happen. That's one reason we're now calling the column "Standards Deviations". How would you like to be a guest columnist sometime?
Hi Chris, you have asked a question that has been hashed over many times in the last few months. It's true that CD-I has taken a beating, but I must respectfully disagree with Rich and tell you that it's not dead yet. CD-ROM XA has also not lived up to…
You need Microsoft Extensions for CD-ROM (MSCDEX.EXE to interpret commaands from DOS to the CD-ROM file format, and also to assign a DOS drive letter. MSCD001 is the device driver name that MSCDEX.EXE uses to assign a drive letter. I'm not familiar with DOS 6.0 yet, so I hesitate to…
name change
Message #49785
Please note my new address flag. I couldn't believe how easy it was to change. I used GO BILOPT to change the billing to my credit card, and chnaged the name and address on the account at the same time. No more gender confusion, and Roger, you live and work…
Here I go again with another plug for The Book. John Sands graciously expounded at length (fir John, there is no other way to expound) on this subject for Chapter 11 "The Future of CD-ROM Technology". It will be interesting to see how his views have changed in the 9…
This is a great idea, but some publishers may not approve. Some of them demand that you return your outdated discs, others that you destroy them. You wrote a very good article in CD-ROM Professional about destroying discs. This opens a whole new can of worms. Can you recycle data?…
Excuse my barging in, but you should read my book. It's called Technology Edge: Guide to CD-ROM, it's available atB Dalton's, Software Etc., and other book stores, and we wrote it for YOU! It's a complete guide to CD-ROM basics – hardware, software, installing, troubleshooting, producing, buying – and best…
#CD recycling
Message #49646
As promised, here are the names of companies who will accept discs and jewel cases for recycling. Jewel boxes and trays: MetroPlastic 275 Forrest Avenue Suite 106 Paramus, NJ 07652 David Segal – 201-261-4242 Clear, shredded, and sometimes ground metallized United Plastic 4230 Mobil High Montgomery, AL John Sullivan -…
Excuse me for barging in, but I can answer that and John can confirm or deny and add his own eight bits – rest assured that he will. CDs are made by molding polycarbonate with metal stampers. They are then metallized with an extremely thin layer of aluminum (write-once discs…
I knew I was going to start getting ribbed about this. So tell me, oh wise and powerful SYSOP, how does one transfer an account? I don't see any sense in both of us having an account, and Bob just reads the messages – he's way too low-key to participate.…
CD-ROM Book
Message #49503
At the urging of Dr. Roger Hutchison, I'm putting in this shameless plug for the book TECHNOLOGY EDGE: GUIDE TO CD-ROM, published by New Riders Publishing, and written by Dana Parker and Bob Starrett. This book has been called "the worthy successor to the Brady Guide", in Rich Bowers' review…
Hey, guys, just a couple of weeks ago I found three companies that actually claim to recycle CD-ROMs. I will dig up the addresses and post them here. I use my old discs for coasters. Dana
Ok, Roger, sir. Remember that my area of expertise is CD-ROM, not telecommunications. And let's not forget that Bob is the co-author and deserves full credit – it's just that they list authors alphabetically and that he's far more modest than I am. Not to mention his generosity in letting…
I agree, put it where the world can enjoy it. If you want a story about "confidence rape"…have I got a great one for you! For your ears only. Dana
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