Mike Jones wrote,
| I also have a nagging suspicion that the failure of the mech might've
| been accelerated by my occasional cloning activities (those
| 'enhanced' 74min discs certainly make a hell of a clunking noise when
| you try to record beyond their physical limits). So - to others who
| do this (and with 80min discs getting cheaper, I guess there's less
| of a reason to now) - beware!
Using it for cloning hasn't hurt my 520; at twenty-two months and a couple
weeks, it's been with me a little longer than Jonathan Irwin's has been with
him, and I hope that helps put Jonathan Davis's mind at ease. I gather that
Mike means the cause might be recording into and reading from the additional
area on 74s after 80s were cloned onto them, not the cloning itself. Nearly
all my cloning has been for tinkering with SCMS bits or recovering deletions
and has not involved trying to use the lead-in or lead-out spaces, and it has
done no damange to my 520.
The nice thing about the 520 -- and perhaps other machines, but I know of
none -- is that in RCD mode the exact address shows during division, so a
user can divide a track exactly on a cluster boundary. That's invaluable for
reassembling fragments when one recovers a heavily edited disc or for pin-
pointing the end of the written area when one recovers a partly filled disc.
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