[olug] SCO UNIX/LINUX help needed

Charles Bird thebirdman at operamail.com
Sun Jan 15 06:27:59 UTC 2006


AHA!
Ya that drive was donated by me and it doesnt even say what speed, it is a dvd rom but its about the same as an old mitsumi and who knows what the original cd was burned as.
I'm just happy to get a copy of those files.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Trent Melcher" <tmelcher at saionline.com>
To: "Omaha Linux User Group" <olug at olug.org>
Subject: RE: [olug] SCO UNIX/LINUX help needed
Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2006 23:47:34 -0600

> 
> That can happen very easily, it all depends on the speed of the drive
> and the speed at which the cd was burned at.  I burned a CD of just a
> bunch of pictures to give to my mom, she had an old 4X cdrom drive ( I
> did know at the time) I gave her a cd which I burned at 16x and of
> course it couldn't read it,  had to burn it at 4x for her drive to read
> it.
> 
> Trent
> 
> Trent Melcher
> Unix/Linux Systems Administrator
> Securities America Financial Corporation
> (402) 399-9111 x2774
> tmelcher at saionline.com
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> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: olug-bounces at olug.org [mailto:olug-bounces at olug.org] On 
> > Behalf Of olug at wjjeep.com
> > Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2006 4:11 PM
> > To: Omaha Linux User Group
> > Subject: Re: [olug] SCO UNIX/LINUX help needed
> >
> > On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 01:49:38PM -0600, Jon H. Larsen wrote:
> > > 1. Is the CD a Burned CD-R?  And how old is the CD?
> >
> > I've had experience whereby an old CD-ROM drive cannot read a 
> > burned CD.  I suppose it is also important that the burned CD be 
> > "finished off" when it is created.
> >
> > Phil
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