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From:Bob Rickman
Date:23 Apr 2001 at 09:21:24
Subject:Re: AACDs Nos.18 &19

Hello Neil,

On 22-Apr-01, you wrote:

> Bob Rickman said,
>
>> Up to and including issue 17 I was able to access all the CDs without any
>> problem, but the last 2 appear unreadable in the usual sense of the word.
>> have OS3.1 roms if this is significant.

> It isn't. It looks like your CDROM drive is unable to handle
> multi-session CDs. CD17 was multi-session but the Amiga data was in the
> final session so the drive is able to read it (I expect you can't see
> the Linux files on that disc). I'm surprised at how many of these
> non-multisession drives are floating around, considering that the drive
> I bought in 1994 reads them perfectly.

I only bought mine in 1997!
>
> There is no easy solution, and I expect you'll find the same with
> AACD20. The good news is that AACD21 and onwards are reverting to
> single-session so you should have no further troubles.

Thanks Neil. Maybe I'm not as thick as I thought I must be. BTW what is the
difficult solution?

Regards,



Bob Rickman
Devon UK

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