On Saturday 11 May 2002 22:59, Sergei Rodionov wrote:
Christopher Mahmood wrote:
There have been booting problems with some older DVD drives... http://sdb.suse.de/en/sdb/html/wessels_pioneerdvd.html
I've never heard that our media is especially shitty until now.
Ever saw what CD's from 7.1 looks like after year of use and dozen of complete installations/software package installations? 8) I really missing old CD drives that Sun been using about 10 years ago - ones with caddies.. I know that its partly problem of CD drives that disks getting scratched, but i just noticed that first few CDs from 7.1 nearly worn out where Win2K (just reinstalled it on fresh computer that i built yesterday) still shiny.
I.e i am not blaming anyone - just curious why its going like that.
Sergei, I think you just answered your own question, if you will reread your last mail above. See it yet? The part where you talk about the dozen's of installations you made with SuSE and only using your W2K hardly any at all? Usually if you don't use a cd much, it is not likely to get scratched, but use them a lot and they are sure to see some wear & tear over a period of time. True the caddy type cdroms were easier on the cd's, but the only problem I have ever had out of scratched cd's came from my mishandling. Patrick -- --- KMail v1.4 --- SuSE Linux Pro v8.0 --- Registered Linux User #225206 Magic Page Products -- Amiga-SuSE-PC Sales & Service URL: http://home.sprintmail.com/~tracerb