[TUHS] Recovering flaky CDs

[imp@bsdimp.com (Warner Losh)]

From: "James Petts" <jpetts@operamail.com>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Recovering flaky CDs
Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 08:25:00 -0800

> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: asbesto <asbesto at freaknet.org>
> > To: "Al Kossow" <aek at bitsavers.org>
> > Subject: Re: [TUHS] Recovering flaky CDs
> > Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 10:22:33 +0100
> > 
> > 
> > Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 04:26:14PM -0700, Al Kossow wrote:
> > 
> > > > Is there anybody on this list who knows a way of recovering flaky CDs?
> > > Easiest first step is try using different kinds of CD/CD-R/DVD-R drives.
> > > I have found some 'unreadable' CDs could be read using a DVD drive.
> > 
> > I remember a very old SONY cd-rom reader capable of reading very
> > damaged cd! It was the SONY CDU-33A, it has his
> > own controller, so was not an IDE or SCSI drive. But it can be
> > connected to an old soundcard like Spectrum or other similars,
> > having some cdrom interfaces.
> > 
> > sorry for my  bad english :)
> > 
> > 
> 
> Those CD Doctor "cleaners" (they actually do a minor
> resurfacing of the disc) have rescued several discs
> for me.

I've used cdparanoia to recover badly damaged audio disks.  Are there
not similar programs for data disks?

Warner