Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!wuarchive!emory!att!cbnewsl!coco From: coco@cbnewsl.att.com (felix.a.lugo) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: Optical disk uncertainty Message-ID: <1991Feb5.152934.587@cbnewsl.att.com> Date: 5 Feb 91 15:29:34 GMT References: <17642@cs.utexas.edu> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 27 In article <17642@cs.utexas.edu> osborn@cs.utexas.edu (John Howard Osborn) writes: | I've heard that the double-sided optical disks that some people are selling | can hurt your optical drive. I'd like to shoot this rumor down, so if | anybody has some hard facts, please post. (OD-drives seem to be flaky | enough without problems like this pushing them over the edge.) | | - | -John H. Osborn | -osborn@cs.utexas.edu If this is true, then my OD doesn't seem to care. I've been using double-sided OD cartridges for over a month now (optical out - flip - optical in) and I've had no problems. /* ** ============================================================================ ** ** Felix A. Lugo AT&T Bell Laboratories ** ** E-Mail: ** (708) 713-4374 coco@ihlpb.att.com att!ihlpb!coco ** ** NeXT-Mail: ** (708) 515-0668 coco@alien.att.com alien.att.com!bootsie!coco ** ** ============================================================================ */ Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com