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From: rca@cs.brown.edu (Ronald C.F. Antony)
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Subject: Re: Some Questions...
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Date: 12 Oct 90 04:04:58 GMT
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>cyliao@wam.umd.edu quotes mheubi@uucp:
>>- How save are Optical Disks *really* ? I read a lot about dust-problems
>>  and data-loss on this net.

I don't have any problems with the disks. I had once a problem with
the drive, but that was a hardware failure. My experiance is, that as
long as you don't leave the disks inserted all the time, but just
mount them as you need them and then unmount them again, there is
little danger to have problems. Also if there should be problems, I've
heard that careful cleaning resloves it most of the time.

Ronald

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