[TUHS] Recovering flaky CDs

[Wilko Bulte]

Quoting asbesto, who wrote on Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 07:28:46PM +0100 ..
> Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 10:19:05AM -0800, James Petts wrote:
> 
> > > > A great problem I had some time ago was a sort of oxydation of the
> > > > cd material; this seem to happen using very bad cd brands. i had
> 
> > > degrC. Within a day the aluminium layer had holes in it the size of dimes.
> > > Apparantly the protective lacquer was very substandard.
> > And it is the top side (label side) of the CD that is most
> > fragile, not the reading side. There is about 0.5 mm of
> 
> YES - and the oxidation I had was on the top "label" side,
> affecting also the reading side :(

Yep, the protective lacquer is on the label/top side.  The bottom
part aka the disc itself is polycarbonate (IIRC)

> p.s.
> 
> the lack of "reply-to" in this mailing list is very, very
> annoying, because it generate a lot of duplicates.

procmail is you friend.  At least it is my friend ;)

Wilko