Hey John,

How about posting your questions where they are "on topic"?

Try some of these newsgroups:
   seattle.users.macintosh
   comp.sys.mac.apps
   comp.sys.mac.hardware
   comp.sys.mac.storage
   comp.sys.mac.misc

Or try looking for answers in newsgroups via Google "Groups".



You might find what you are looking for on VersionTracker.com

Toast is a Mac application which burns CDs, which requires it to read CDs.
It is a good product, and it may solve your problem.

Good luck.

--Dave

On 2/17/06, John A.M. Darnell <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Hello All:
>
>    The company accepts input from hundreds of schools on CD.  Many of
> those CDs are originally unreadable once we get them in house and we have
> to spend much time making them readable.
>
>    The fact that we can make them readable in the end (usually it involves
> one of my programmers walking around the plant and inserting the CD into a
> Mac box until he finds one that reads the disk) leads me to conclude that
> we'd have an easier time of it if we only had the right software to help
> diagnose the problem.
>
>    Do any of you know an equivalent of "Norton Disk Doctor" or something
> similar that would work on CDs?
>
>    Any other suggestions you might have would be gratefully received.
>
> R,
>
> John A.M. Darnell
> Project Leader
> Internal Software Development
> Walsworth Publishing Company
>