Dave Dunfield wrote:
Hi Guys,
I have posted the update to ImageDisk which allows it to work
with Head/Cylinder values on a per-sector basis if needed.
I have also posted a number of additional ImageDisk format
system disk archives.
Dave, from my quick read of your description of the IMD format, there is meta
information that I think would be valuable to store. When a disk is imaged, the
captured file should indicate which tracks/sectors had problems being read.
That would allow automated merging of two different attempts to capture a given
disk (I haven't used your merge program, but my understanding was that one had
to manually specify which tracks to take from each image. Futher, when
archiving one often is processing a large batch of disks. Keeping track of the
problematic sectors manually and making sure that information is associated with
the disk is challenging. Some months later when going back to a pile of disk
images, it would be nice to know which sectors are suspect.