Packet writing - how safe is it?

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Mike Richter (Slimy Scum) wrote:

Fixed-length packets (erasable): you will lose data, sooner rather than
later.

Lose! Lose! Lose! Wow! Wow! Wow!

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From: Mike Richter (Acraptec Shill)
Subject: A note on Take Two
Date: 9/1/99

For Take Two to work ideally, your drive must support
packet writing and you must have DCD installed...to do it.

You may back up ... to a DCD-formatted erasable.
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Imagine for Take Two, supposedly a backup software, to work "ideally",
it must use supposedly *inherently* flaky, fragile, faulty, unreliable
packet writing format!

Moreover, the supposedly *inherently* flaky, fragile, faulty, unreliable
packet writing format was good enough for BACKUP, even when combined
with supposedly *inherently* flaky, fragile, forgetful, unreliable cd-rw
media!

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Mike Richter (Slimy Scum) wrote:

Fixed-length packets (erasable): you will lose data, sooner rather than
later.

Why don't you tell the OP the why's, Mikey?

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Mike Richter on Packet Writing Format (xiii)
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"the fault is not with the software but with the format"

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From: Mike Richter (Lying Scum)
Date: 6/19/03

most of those who have written fixed-length packets
have either stopped doing so altogether or,
as I do, use the format only for test.

The format is bad - it loses data.

That's not because of DCD, the age of the recorder or
the phase of the moon.
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Did the "format" -- the scam artist's slimy euphemism for the UDF
STANDARD -- undergo a change for the worse between (9/1/99) and
(6/19/03)?

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From: Mike Richter (Acraptec Shill)
Subject: A note on Take Two
Date: 9/1/99

For Take Two to work ideally, your drive must support
packet writing and you must have DCD installed...to do it.

You may back up ... to a DCD-formatted erasable.
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Mike Richter (Slimy Scum) wrote:

Fixed-length packets (erasable): you will lose data, sooner rather than
later.

Why are you pussyfooting around, Mikey? Is the word "lethal" no longer
in your vocaburary, Mikey?

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Mike Richter & "Lethal for archiving"
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( The following applies only to )
( DirectCD and Drag-to-Disc )

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From: Mike Richter (cRoxio Shill)
Subject: File Integrity Errors - DirectCD Bug?
Date: (10/15/01)

Combining the flaky UDF fixed-length packets with
the tendency of erasables (particularly HS) to forget
is LETHAL for archiving.
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( Why aren't there big warnings )
( in DirectCD and Drag-to-Disc? )

Did the "format" -- the scam artist's slimy euphemism for the UDF
STANDARD -- undergo a change for the worse between (9/1/99) and
(10/15/01)?

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From: Mike Richter (Acraptec Shill)
Subject: A note on Take Two
Date: (9/1/99)

For Take Two to work ideally, your drive must support
packet writing and you must have DCD installed...to do it.

You may back up ... to a DCD-formatted erasable.
=======================

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Mike Richter (Slimy Scum) wrote:

Fixed-length packets (erasable): you will lose data, sooner rather than
later.

Why don't you tell the OP the why's, Mikey?

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Mike Richter on Packet Writing Format (i)
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"the fault is not with the software but with the format"

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From: Mike Richter (cRoxio Shill)
Subject: Files Disappeared From CDRW DIsc.......
Date: (12/15/01)

Suddenly i find myself among those who are having BIG problems with Roxios
crappy software, after a reasonable amount of small problems with it, i
insert a cdrw with files on it (jpegs) and tried to burn a few more onto it
only to find Roxio software thinks it is either, corrupted, unrecognized
daata or need formatting(?) only one file remains on the disc, the others
are GONE.

....My guess is that you used DCD and you have
now joined the crowd of users who have learned that

fixed-length packets are the least reliable and
most fragile format you can write to CD.

Incidentally, the fault is not with the software but with the format
and the medium.
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Did the "format" -- the scam artist's slimy euphemism for the UDF
STANDARD -- undergo a change for the worse between (9/1/99) and
(12/15/01)?

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From: Mike Richter (Acraptec Shill)
Subject: A note on Take Two
Date: 9/1/99

For Take Two to work ideally, your drive must support
packet writing and you must have DCD installed...to do it.

You may back up ... to a DCD-formatted erasable.
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Si wrote:

Plonk!

What a Friggin' Dummy!

(BrianT)
When I re-format a CDRW with Drag to Disk Full Format {EasyCD
6}, the space available after format drops by between 150 and
200 Mgs and I cannot get it back. A full format on a new CDRW
is OK. This never happened with EasyCD 5.

(Mike Richter)
If you insist on using fixed-length packets,
you ask for that as well as losing data.

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Mike Richter (Slimy Scum) wrote:

Fixed-length packets (erasable): you will lose data, sooner rather than
later.

Why are you pussyfooting around, Mikey? Is the word "lethal" no longer
in your vocaburary, Mikey?

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Mike Richter & "Lethal for archiving"
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( The following applies only to )
( DirectCD and Drag-to-Disc )

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From: Mike Richter (cRoxio Shill)
Subject: File Integrity Errors - DirectCD Bug?
Date: (10/15/01)

Combining the flaky UDF fixed-length packets with
the tendency of erasables (particularly HS) to forget
is LETHAL for archiving.
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The above Mikey's cockamamie was supposed to weasel out this DirectCD
bug:

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From: Arthur Lipscomb
Subject: File Integrity Errors
Date: 10/13/01

Mike Richter (Lying Scum) wrote:

Arthur Lipscomb wrote:

I am using Easy CD Creator 5 Platinum on a Windows Me computer. I ran
scandisk on a CDRW disk and it came back with a file integrity error
(this has happened several times in the past on other discs). Scandisc
was not able to copy the files to a different location, and windows copy
and paste gave the following error, "Cannot copy...Windows in unable to
find the file. This item might have already been deleted or moved."
However, the files (videos) on the disc play normally. I have copies of
all of the files on my hard drive so I formatted a brand new blank CDRW
and copied the files onto the new disk. After running scandisk again I
received the same error messages.

You are using the least reliable and most fragile format available for
storage on CD. More than that, you appear to have flaky erasable media,
possibly because they've been erased too often, possibly because they
are not well matched to your writer.

.... Or are you saying the problem is I'm formatting them as
rewriteable. Which even if it's not as reliable as formatting as read
only, shouldn't have such extreme problems so quickly. In the previous
example, the disc was formatted once, and I ran scandisc immediately
after transferring the files to the disc. So the problem wasn't caused
by repeatedly erasing the disc.
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Si wrote:
Plonk!

What a Friggin' Idiot!

Once upon a time, Take Two, supposedly a backup software, cannot live
without packet writing. For Take Two to work * IDEALLY *, it must use
supposedly *inherently* flaky, fragile, faulty, unreliable packet
writing format!

Moreover, the supposedly *inherently* flaky, fragile, faulty, unreliable
packet writing format was good enough for BACKUP, even when combined
with supposedly *inherently* flaky, fragile, forgetful, unreliable cd-rw
media!

=======================
From: Mike Richter (Acraptec Shill)
Subject: A note on Take Two
Date: 9/1/99

For Take Two to work ideally, your drive must support
packet writing and you must have DCD installed...to do it.

You may back up ... to a DCD-formatted erasable.
=======================

But then when the reports of DirectCD bugs started pouring in, the SAME
combination of packet writing format and cd-rw media -- that was good
enough for BACKUP -- became LETHAL for archiving:

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From: Mike Richter (cRoxio Shill)
Subject: File Integrity Errors - DirectCD Bug?
Date: 10/15/01

Combining the flaky UDF fixed-length packets with
the tendency of erasables (particularly HS) to forget
is LETHAL for archiving.
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Mike Richter (Slimy Scum) wrote:

Fixed-length packets (erasable): you will lose data, sooner rather than
later.

Why don't you tell the OP the why's, Mikey?

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Mike Richter on Packet Writing Format (ii)
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"the fault is not with the software but with the format"

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Mike Richter (Hit&Run) wrote (6/16/03):

Fixed-length packets are the least reliable and most fragile
format available for CD recording. Use it at your own
(substantial) risk.

Only substantial risk, Hit&Run? Why pussyfooting around, Hit&Run?
The word is "lethal." Is the word "lethal" no longer in your
vocabulary, Hit&Run?

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Mike Richter & "Lethal for archiving"
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From: Mike Richter (Lying Scum)
Subject: File Integrity Errors - DirectCD Bug?
Date: 10/15/01

Combining the flaky UDF fixed-length packets with
the tendency of erasables (particularly HS) to forget
is LETHAL for archiving.
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( BTW, have you ever communicated with OSTA about what you call
the flakiness of fixed-length packet format?

Asking because you won't least a bit squeamish communicating with
Plextor and Andy McFadden, letting them know their errant ways --and
made that fact public. )

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Best I can tell, smh, you're a real masturbator.


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Si wrote:

Plonk!

What a Friggin' Dummy!

(BrianT)
When I re-format a CDRW with Drag to Disk Full Format {EasyCD
6}, the space available after format drops by between 150 and
200 Mgs and I cannot get it back. A full format on a new CDRW
is OK. This never happened with EasyCD 5.

(Mike Richter)
If you insist on using fixed-length packets,
you ask for that as well as losing data.

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Anonymous Joe wrote:

"smh" wrote...

(BrianT)
When I re-format a CDRW with Drag to Disk Full Format {EasyCD
6}, the space available after format drops by between 150 and
200 Mgs and I cannot get it back. A full format on a new CDRW
is OK. This never happened with EasyCD 5.

(Mike Richter)
If you insist on using fixed-length packets,
you ask for that as well as losing data.

Best I can tell, smh, you're a real masturbator.

Stupid F*** doesn't even realize IT's being insulted!