24 Feb
1999
24 Feb
'99
4:56 a.m.
At 01:55 AM 2/24/99 +0000, Tony Duell wrote:
I was thinking more of general-purpose tools where you defined the format
of the disk (as in 80 track, single sided, 5 1024 byte sectors, etc) and
it made/dumped a disk image file. A program to handle CP/M disks would be
next on the list...
I think there's great value in having a disk image format that
can contain more than the raw data. For example, how do you solve
the problem of archiving bad sectors? You want your raw disk
reader to be able to recover from those types of errors, too.
I seem to remember that Anadisk or Teledisk had defined its
raw-plus format somewhere, I'll need to search my archives to
find what I'm remembering.
- John