newbies linux adventure

[John (EBo) David]

Jim wrote:
> 
> Nothing is going to correct a scratch on the cd.

well that is not entirely correct...  First, if the recording material
is scratched it is done, but if it is simply a surface inperfection try
putting a dab of furnature polish paste in the scratch and buffing it
with a soft cloth.  The polish will keep the edges of the scratch from
refracting to badly and can sometimes eek out the data.  Also spin the
disk down to 1x if possible.  That will keep the off ballance nature of
the CD from wabbling at high speeds.  Remember that a regular CD spins
at something like 300rpm, and even just a few 1/100's of a gram can
cause the thing to vibrate at several hundred RPM.  Now add the
possibility of using one of those new fangled drives cruzing at 100x,
and you may be wipping that puppy around at many 1,000's or RPM and that
little wieght difference would be making the disk and drive be doing a
shimy shake...  Actually try running the drive a it's slowest rate
first, then the Johnsons paste wax.  No I'm really serious here.  A
buddy of mine was BOARD one night and started carving an old RH distro
CD with a pocket knife and polishing it up just to see how far he could
screw with it until he could no longer get it to read...


  EBo --