20 Dec
2005
20 Dec
'05
3:09 p.m.
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