18 Jun
2010
18 Jun
'10
5 p.m.
On Sat, 19 Jun 2010, Kieron Wilkinson wrote:
IMO. There also hundreds and hundreds of disk formats
out there (and
Certainly well over 3000
that's just for personal computers). Are you
intending to reverse
engineer them all?
I analyzed a bunch of them, and implemented 400 of the ones that I
analyzed in XenoCopy. That did NOT include studies of the inter-sector
gaps, and other issues irrelevant to file transfer, but did include
analysis of the file system and directory parameters and structures.
Chuck seems to have done substantially more.
things. Maybe you do plan to do all that, but I just
thought I'd mention
it! :)
May we all live so long!
Can it be done as anything OTHER than a hobby project?
There certainly doesn't seem to be enough economic incentive to put in
that much work. I kept at it for years after it no longer paid the bills.
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