16 Sep
2007
16 Sep
'07
8:08 p.m.
Philip Pemberton wrote:
...
Now what I'd like to know is, what part of the
Catweasel's design
prevents it from being used for archiving discs?
Some people expect that just because they paid $100 for the card that
professional grade drivers should exist for every possible disk format.
Yes, the hardware does cost ~$100, but just about all you are buying is
the card. The software is all done via hobbyist activity, with the
quality, consistency, and support you might expect.
Prior to the Mk IV design, writing to hard sectored formats was not
really possible (unless you count writing a track blindly with semi
arbitrary rotational phase, then attempting to read it back and starting
over if it didn't work counts as possible). Mk IV has added some
mechanisms for having the hardware wait until index/sector marks are
seen before initiating a write.