----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Reliabilty of CD storage - was: Lightroom 2.0 beta
> Well, actually, Godfrey, not sure how to do a verification/validation pass. > And you can't help, as you're Mac and I am PC. > I know Nero can be told to verify the data after the burn is complete. I'm always suspicious until I've stuck the CD into another drive and made sure that at the very least, the directory structure is in place. I recall reading a technobabble article a few years ago about the number of errors that can happen during a normal burn process, and how if you keep copying the same data from CD to CD to CD, eventually, you will end up with an unusable coaster, and also that a CD can self introduce errors just sitting there, slowly oxidizing. I don't recall the source of the article, but reading it was enough to make me start looking into hard drives instead of optical media, and to stick with good quality writers and discs for CD burning. William Robb -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
