ImageDisk project is canceled

Tony Duell ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk
Tue Dec 20 17:09:15 CST 2005


> 
> The format is said to be HEAVILY documented.
> 
> His program was one way to access the format, the format itself was the true
> value in his work!
> 
> And that format was what he readily gave away for free!

Without seeing the source code to Imagedisk, how do I know that it 
actually follows that spec. I will assume Dave is not so malicious as to 
XOR the sector data with pseudorandom bit stream or anything stupid [1] 
but how do I know that there isn't a bug in the progrma that causes it to 
fail if there are more than 27 sectors/track or something?

[1] On the other hand, if I have a floppy from some machine that I don't 
own, and which I have no other way of reading, how would I verify this?

-tony


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