[rescue] CD-R media

[George W Adkins]

On Tuesday 16 October 2001 10:16 pm, you wrote:
> > got a 100 count spindle of CompUSA store brand crap, even the plextors I
> have
> > choke on it.  (Yeah...) it's some off-yellow-green trash.  pretty
> horrible.
> > I've used all of maybe 20 of the disks.  not even good for Audio disks.
>
> A friend of mine has a bunch of those, try holding them up to the light,
> they are almost completely transparent, and when you scratch the label on
> top of the CD with your fingernail (even lightly), it peels off the label,
> and the underlying media.
>
Yeah, I took two coasters (consecutive, burned at 2x and 1x respectively 
before switching to Memorex media), placed them label sides together and 
rubbed them against each other, a snow of silver flakes came out from between 
them, leaving transparent spots on the disks.