From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: jpetts@operamail.com (James Petts)
Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 08:25:00 -0800
Subject: [TUHS] Recovering flaky CDs
Message-ID: <20071031162500.832803AA648@ws5-8.us4.outblaze.com>

> ----- 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.