Re: Harvey Norman CD-Rs: Chemistry Capacity

2002-10-01 Thread Helmut Walle
I was still curious and did a short web search on my CD-R questions. On Sat, 28 Sep 2002, Helmut Walle wrote: ... Disk type:Short strategy type (Phthalocyanine or similar) ... Phthalocyanine sounds quite toxic to me... And what is Short strategy type anyway? Have I overlooked this

Re: Harvey Norman CD-Rs: Chemistry Capacity

2002-09-29 Thread Philip Charles
On Sat, 28 Sep 2002, Helmut Walle wrote: Hi I just put one of the el-cheapo CDs into the drive, and cdrecord says Disk type:Short strategy type (Phthalocyanine or similar) My understanding is that this means short term storage only. Phil. -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Street,

Re: Harvey Norman CD-Rs: Chemistry Capacity

2002-09-29 Thread Christopher Sawtell
On Sun, 29 Sep 2002 21:33, Philip Charles wrote: On Sat, 28 Sep 2002, Helmut Walle wrote: Hi I just put one of the el-cheapo CDs into the drive, and cdrecord says Disk type:Short strategy type (Phthalocyanine or similar) My understanding is that this means short term storage

Re: Harvey Norman CD-Rs: Chemistry Capacity

2002-09-29 Thread Philip Charles
On Sun, 29 Sep 2002, Christopher Sawtell wrote: On Sun, 29 Sep 2002 21:33, Philip Charles wrote: On Sat, 28 Sep 2002, Helmut Walle wrote: Hi I just put one of the el-cheapo CDs into the drive, and cdrecord says Disk type:Short strategy type (Phthalocyanine or similar)

Re: Harvey Norman CD-Rs: Chemistry Capacity

2002-09-29 Thread Rex Johnston
On Sun, 2002-09-29 at 22:46, Philip Charles wrote: On Sun, 29 Sep 2002, Christopher Sawtell wrote: On Sun, 29 Sep 2002 21:33, Philip Charles wrote: My understanding is that this means short term storage only. Got any idea how short term is defined? Not really, but personally I would not

Re: Re: Harvey Norman CD-Rs: Chemistry Capacity

2002-09-29 Thread Jeremy Bertenshaw
Charles [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: Canterbury Linux Users Group [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Harvey Norman CD-Rs: Chemistry Capacity Got any idea how short term is defined? -- Sincerely etc., Christopher Sawtell

Re: Re: Harvey Norman CD-Rs: Chemistry Capacity

2002-09-29 Thread Christopher Sawtell
fine. It's the writeable ones I'm keen to know about. jeremy. From: Christopher Sawtell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2002/09/29 Sun PM 10:03:35 GMT+12:00 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], Philip Charles [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: Canterbury Linux Users Group [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Harvey Norman CD

Harvey Norman CD-Rs: Chemistry Capacity

2002-09-28 Thread Helmut Walle
Hi I just put one of the el-cheapo CDs into the drive, and cdrecord says Disk type:Short strategy type (Phthalocyanine or similar) Manuf. index: 7 Manufacturer: GIGASTORAGE CORPORATION Phthalocyanine sounds quite toxic to me... And what is Short strategy type anyway? Have I