Another disk imaging project

Al Kossow aek at bitsavers.org
Wed Aug 3 12:21:20 CDT 2005



Out of interest, what's actually changed between the catweasel
revisions? I mean, I thought they always buffered stuff at the track
level and did all the decoding / encoding work in software? So I'm
surprised the hardware isn't pretty simple and able to support pretty
much anything without several revisions...

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switch from ISA to PCI, then changing from programmed to downloaded
fpga

they also got rid of some problems dealing with hard-sectored discs

the problem with it is both the skanky hardware distribution and
software. the useful stuff was all written by Tim Mann.

its target market really is not for data recovery.



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