On 02/12/05, Mica Mijatovic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As to Arj, I have discovered that if I keep such archives on a CD-RW, > after a pretty short while (perhaps 2 or 3 weeks) they will (almost all > of them) become unreadable/corrupted, and irrecoverable. > On "ordinary" CDs they are okay.
Cheap media? Bad recorder? Both? German magazine c't has had some great articles on reliability of CD/DVD media. Bottom line: there's no real reliability, especially true for recordable DVDs. I couldn't read most of my Verbatim CD-Rs from 1996 any more in 2003. Roman -- ________________________________________________ Current version is 3.62.14 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
