Well, a really old single-session CDRom drive should have no problems,
Unfortunately, I've had some experience of attempting to get old CD-Rom drives to work in modern computers [shudders] and since the consumer advice back in those days was "get a multi-session drive at all costs", even finding a single-session drive could be tricky.
That said, it's Cactus Data Shield, the primary mechanism of which appears to be Completely BuggeredTM table-of-contents entries, in complete violation of the Red Book standards, so I'm not sure even an old single-session drive could read it.
As you say, there's always recording stuff the old-fashioned way. Unfortunately, the nearest digital out is 10 meters away as the laser beam burns through walls, and I don't think either of our PCs have a digital input anyhow, so it'll probably have to be analogue. Still, I've not fully explored the software route yet, so there may yet be hope.
Re: trading standards For the moment, I'm just going to keep being an awkward but reasonable annoyed customer. I've a horrible feeling that Trading Standards won't be able to touch a Jersey-based company, anyhow.
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Date: 2003-05-12 15:56 (UTC)Unfortunately, I've had some experience of attempting to get old CD-Rom drives to work in modern computers [shudders] and since the consumer advice back in those days was "get a multi-session drive at all costs", even finding a single-session drive could be tricky.
That said, it's Cactus Data Shield, the primary mechanism of which appears to be Completely BuggeredTM table-of-contents entries, in complete violation of the Red Book standards, so I'm not sure even an old single-session drive could read it.
As you say, there's always recording stuff the old-fashioned way. Unfortunately, the nearest digital out is 10 meters away as the laser beam burns through walls, and I don't think either of our PCs have a digital input anyhow, so it'll probably have to be analogue. Still, I've not fully explored the software route yet, so there may yet be hope.
Re: trading standards
For the moment, I'm just going to keep being an awkward but reasonable annoyed customer. I've a horrible feeling that Trading Standards won't be able to touch a Jersey-based company, anyhow.