JAY EMRIE wrote in a message to PETER MAY:

PM>Remember when CDs first came out, they said you can scratch them and put
PM>fingerprints on them and they will still play OK. Well it's not true!

 JE> I think it is basically true. I have numerous CDs with
 JE> scratches and smudges on the data side and they read from
 JE> multiple drives just fine. You just canNOT scratch the
 JE> the other side at all. Even the slightest pinhole can/will
 JE> render the CD unreadable.

Are you talking about the side that has the label? Is is possible to just
blank out the scratch with a special marker pen?

Regards,
Peter 
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