On Wed, 26 Apr 2000, Derek Martin wrote:
>> If *any* error occurs during *any* part of the recording process, the entire
>> CD-R medium is ruined.  CD-R works by heating the medium up with a high
> 
> It's worth noting here that some read errors are recoverable, if the
> program doing the reading does sufficient retries.

  True, but this was a *write* error, not a read error.  And even if the data
is there but damaged, the kernel filesystem driver doesn't do "sufficient
retries" to make it work.  :-)

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