The backup, mp3s and other data CDs that I have made on my Dell have become unreadable after a couple of years of storage. Perhaps it is the fault of the burner. Unfortunately there is no way to know until after the disk fails. Entropy rules! Philip
At 11:22 AM 4/17/2009, you wrote: >It depends. > >Ever since the days of popular music on magnetic tape it has been >understood by many people that magnetic recordings fade with time. The >floppy drive in my laptop still works well but most of my old disks have >read errors. Philip & Marilyn Lange AE4OV & KD4JRC ORYOKI Witness 35 Catamaran There is no reason to have a plan if you are not going to pretend to follow it _______________________________________________ Liveaboard mailing list [email protected] To adjust your membership settings over the web http://www.liveaboardnow.org/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard To subscribe send an email to [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] The archives are at http://www.liveaboardnow.org/pipermail/liveaboard/ To search the archives http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] The Mailman Users Guide can be found here http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html
