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
More information about the cctalk
mailing list