[Info-vax] old hobby cdrom

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In article <KL9xm.107935$7B.83648 at newsfe28.ams2>, ChrisQ <meru at devnull.com> writes:
>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 ?...

It's in a readable format.  Weendoze is just too fucking stupid to read it.

The CD is in a VMS volume format.  Unless something like ODS2 is installed,
I doubt that WEENDOZE will think much of it.

No problem with my Ubuntu Linux.  ODS2 reads it find.  In fact, I not only
read the CD on Linux but I created the image for it on Linux and I was able
to burn it to a new CD for VMS to read on Linux.

WEENDOZE ran Minesweeper while I did that.
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