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		gpvos on July 31, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why I Ripped the Same CD 300 Times I used it a lot. Sadly, it destroyed my Macbook Pro's drive when I tried to rip a particular CD-R (it had ripped others fine before).

Filligree on July 31, 2018 [–]

Well, that isn't the program's fault. There should be no series of commands it can send that would destroy the CD drive--I bet it wasn't even running as root.

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