[Info-vax] old hobby cdrom

[ChrisQ]

nierveze wrote:
> hello all, my old 1997 hobbyist cdrom is degraded and does not mount
> anymore,I use it often (since 12 years) for lots of utilities and games
> present on it ,and no longer present on the following hobby cdroms.Of course
> I cleaned it ,even tried to copy it on a pc ,I already did this to restore
> cdroms used by my children ,that where in bad shape after some
> 'party'!!etc...nothing to do .Please ,if someone
> can make a copy for me ,it will be a geat help.

Might be on the wrong foot here, but are you sure it's not the reader. 
The lasers get weak as drives age and if the disk is also marginal ?. 
What happens if you put the disk in a pc, assuming the format is in some 
way readable ?...

Regards,

Chris