On Saturday 22 February 2003 20:25, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, I was wondering how a cd could break into pices in a cd drive?
It is certainly possible. When Neverwinter Nights was released, some batches of CDs were low quality and had the tendency to break apart in faster drives. Thode disks could be recognized by a missing reinforcement ring near the center of the disk. There are stories about disks breaking at completely bad moments, hurting people who were about to remove the disk from the drive. You _should_ be safe from this if you're using one of those older caddy-loaded drives (disks can still break, but those caddies are relatively sturdy and all drives I know using those things are running at sane speeds <=32x and are much better balanced than todays cheapbottom drives). Rule of thumb: if a disk starts to crack at the center, stop using it. -- Got Backup? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
