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Rod Speed wrote:
> 
> 
SNIP

> It appears to have affected about half the tracks, like I said early
> on. I was basically looking for a tool that would give me a clear
> display of errors per track so I could see how many of the bad
> tracks the owner of the CD cared about recovering.
> 
Heres a wild card possiblity, that disk was burnt in multple sessions
and has not been closed properly and/or the felt pen has damaged the
next session info.
This would account for not being able to revcover any tracks past
apparently damaged track.

> > By the way do you recall what you called me about a year
> > ago when I posted regarding felt pens damaging CD's ?
> 
> Just your fantasy/lying. I just commented on your peurile antics
> about working out which was the writeable side of the blank.

Well I will feel for centre hub ridge on writable side of all disks and
inset disk with this side down, you can continue to inset disk in burner
and if burn fails then open burner and take CD out and turn it over. 
If you think my method is purile then by all means you go with your more
mature method.

> 
> As far as the use of felt tipped pens are concerned, I JUST
> said that you dont see reports of the Sanford Sharpies producing
> that result, NOT felt pens in general. And you yourself said
> that you hadnt seen any problem when using a sharpie.
> http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&selm=3b3d19b8%241%40news.iprimus.com.au

Because I always use coated disks for data (Kodak) so this minimises
chances of damage from felt tipped pens and sharpies, and I use CD pens
now.

> 
> > Anyway thats history, so try those tools, and try using a specialty
> > CD pen (eg Stadler) even though you find the tips too thick.
> 
> It wasnt one I wrote on, it clearly aint, its obscenely
> thick, much worse than the Staedler or TDK.

If you have had one disk go bad I would check any important *data*
disks, especially disks made by same manufacturer. 
Use CDR Identifer to check manufacturer 
http://www.gum.de/cdrid/
Free download.

It seems likely that disk damage by felt pens is mainly a result of poor
disks coatings being susceptible to felt pen ink penetration, it may
well be that the same pen will never affect disks with better coatings. 
No hard evidence but obviously best not to take chances with data, with
music its not so important.