After a year I have now managed to get a replacement of my 1891
Census CD. It arrived damaged but I am assured it was OK when it
left. It also had a customs declaration which was missing when I got
it. It was opened by Australia Post for Customs Inspection by someone
who left greasy finger prints on the case; on the CD a long hair,
several bits of junk and a scratch right across the surface, which to
me looks like deliberate damage.
I cleaned off the junk and tried it. The G4 can see it and open it
but VPC does not see it. I burned a copy which works like a charm,
the program runs fast. [The copy I made of the previous CD, which had
a deep cut, ran very slowly].
Can anyone suggest why this is happening? These two are the only PC
CDs I have ever tried which do not work normally with VPC.
Could it be a glitch in my CD drive? I have a G4 Quicksilver 933 MHz,
512 M RAM in OS 9.2.2 with a DVD-R, CD-RW. I got the update for the
CD driver but later I wiped the system partition and re-installed
9.2.2. When I updated the system the CD update was on the list but
when I tried to run it I was told it had already been done.
I did have one other CD problem, a box of CDs which the G4 just spat
out. This box was several years old so I just assumed they had
deteriorated.
Diana (feeling old and confused this morning)
