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                 Mike Richter, were you born with
              "Scam Artist" emblazoned on your face?
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         (Mike Richter, any Material Connection w/ Roxio?)

http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=3F2D8973.EBCD8386@mindspring.com
(Messages 10, 12 -- 34, 54 -- 69)

( No pipsqueaks have been able to prove ANY of the above is a libel )
(   -- despite Mikey's supposed to have proof of misquotes!         )


Phred wrote:
> 
> I have to admit I'm slightly confused by the terminology.
> 
> I started out using Imation CD_RWs formatted in the default fashion by
> Adaptec DirectCD 3.01d_D5 (i.e. a Dell-installed OEM version).  No
> problems with them that way.
> 
> Later, I listened to blokes in comp.publish.cdrom.hardware and I
> *thought* they were saying such CD_RWs are unreliable and normal CD_Rs
> formatted UDF were much better.

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!

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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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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: Re: 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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