[Ham-Computers] CD and DVD Drive Issues

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Group,

Several years ago, when I was adding a DVD-RW drive to the main machine here, 
Aaron recommended I keep the CD-RW drive (or a CD-RW drive) and do all the 
CD's with it.  A couple of days ago, while working on the Navy ARB manual, I 
proved he was right.  I sell TM reprints and was saving backups of the TIF files 
to CD.  Several categories of manuals (TM 11's and NAVSHIPS for example) were 
up to three or four CD's.  When DVD's came along I shifted most of the manual 
categories to them.  But not all, as I still had the CD drive and numerous 
blank CDR's and some manual categories (like NAVAER) weren't close to filling up 
a CD.  

When I went to backup the revised ARB file, I forgot that the backup was on 
CD and put the CD into the DVD drive.  It wouldn't read it but offered to try 
to "fix" it for me.  Fortunately, it was quite late (probably part of the 
reason I didn't notice it was a CD) and I went to bed instead.  Just now I was 
sitting here with the bad "DVD" in my hand about to format a fresh blank DVD and 
just re-do the backup from scratch when I suddenly saw that it was a CD.  
Popped it into the CDRW drive and it read it just fine.  :-)

Robert Downs - Houston
wa5cab dot com (Web Store)
MVPA 9480
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