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Mike Richter, were you born with
"Scam Artist" emblazoned on your face?
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A certain scam artist swears by the following:

"DirectCD bugs translate into the faults of packet writing"
"DirectCD bugs translate into unreliability of cd-rw media"

A lot of the DirectCD problems that are slimily blamed on the cd-rw
media and the packet writing format are caused by these DirectCD bugs:
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DirectCD 3.05
Fixes

Some older, low-speed recorders cannot correctly write high-speed
rated CD-RW media, but DirectCD would formerly allow you to try.

DirectCD now checks the media and
will reject as appropriate. === FIXED ???

DirectCD 5.3.4
Fixed:

Burn to Ultra High Speed media on non-Ultra High Speed Drives,
no longer allowed === FIX a FIX ???
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Here Mikey blamed the above DirectCD bugs on almost everything under the
sun, except DirectCD:

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From: Mike Richter (Lying Scum)
Subject: Problem with Direct CD 3.05
Date: 11/22/02

I used Direct CD for about one year without any problems. All of a sudden I
found myself unable to format a CD-RW. For the most part the drive will just
keep flashing and I have to shut and restart the computer to stop it and
retrieve the disc.

Difficulty in formatting an erasable is most often due to the medium,
not to the software or drive hardware.

During a full format, each sector
is written and read back; if the error rate is excessive, the sector is
retried, then retired. Given errors, the process is very slow and even
if it succeeds, the disc is no longer reliable.

(Not that fixed-length packets are very reliable to begin with.)

Note that errors increase with erase cycles; the practical limit is far
less than the theoretical 1000 cycles.

You can check this by mastering an erasable then counting errors. You
should have better luck with a new erasable from a batch which has
worked before.

If that doesn't work, then try checking for dirt in the drive
- if necessary, blowing it out gently with "canned air".
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But then:

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From: Mike Richter (Lying Scum)
Subject: DirectCD 5 .. More funnies
Date: 7/29/01

Incidentally, with a little experience,
you're likely to find that

formatting an erasable is not a problem.

Fixed-length packets make for the least reliable format for
CD recording and few people find a need for many such discs.
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Mikey, you are a Scum!
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