[SGVLUG] The day BEFORE installing -- check your media!

[Emerson, Tom (*IC)]

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> On 5/17/07, Emerson, Tom (*IC) <Tom.Emerson at wbconsultant.com> wrote:
> > Happy happy joy joy -- my new laptop arrived today [had it 
[...]
> > ACK!!! Sure enough, upon ejecting the disk, I saw 
> immediately why it 
> > failed -- or, as they say, a pictures worth a thousand 
> words, so I'll 
> > let the attachment do the rest of the talking [unless, of 
> course, out 
> > list strips it -- don't remember how Michael has it set up 
> -- in any 
> > case, it is a reasonably small file]
> 
> not sure what i'm looking for - there's a lot of stuff that 
> is reflected.  is it a scratch or bad media  a partial burn or what?

Hmmm... Yeah, the picture quality isn't the best, but that big
arrow-shaped section that /looks/ like a reflection looks more like an
area of the disk that didn't "burn" -- or another way to put it is that
this area of the disk "would be a shadow" of whatever is at the "point"
if you had a light source at the hub of the disk.  (maybe a defect in
the disk reflected the laser parallel to the surface?)

In any case, I'll probably bring it to the next meeting if anyone really
wants to see it