Hi Guys,
A few days back I posted ImageDisk 1.17 to the site, and it's just
been reported (and confirmed) that it had a bug which causes it to
write images incorrectly (fortunately it appears to read them
correctly).
I've corrected the problem and updated the package - if you have
downloaded 1.17 before today, please download it again.
I've also restored Imagedisk 1.16 to the site, listing it as the
last known stable release, so that people won't be left hanging if
(when) something like this happens again.
<rant>
I apologize for the inconvienence - I've been sitting on 1.17 for a
few months - there were substantial changes made to the read/write disk
functions accomodate the ability to record the data from bad sectors,
and I knew there was a strong possibility of problems. I made these
changes at the request of a member of this list who just "had to have
them" right away.
Took me a fair bit time to make the changes, which also involved research,
pestering Chuck, Allison and others and lots of trial and error to figure out
what I could and could not do with the 765FDC and bad sectors. This also
required additions to the image file format, and therefore update to all of
the utilities which manipulate them - During this time I had several
correspondances with the individual who had requested the changes, and he
promised me that if I made them, he would test it thoroughly, make extensive
use of it (iirc several hundred disks to process) and give me a full report
of any problems etc. that were encountered before I released the software
for mass consumption.
So I delivered the new software to him (early may), and he immediately fell
silent. Contacted him a week later, and was told that he hadn't had time to
look at it, but would let me know when he got around to it.... Now several
months have gone by and not a peep from him.
So... I posted it anyway (my bad), and of course there was a problem. I've
corrected it, but due to the number of changes required for this update, it
could still benefit from some outside testing (any volenteers?)
It's annoying to invest time to do someone a favor (that they asked for) only
to find out that they consider their own time too valuable to follow up their
part - I'm sure Chuck will tell me that this is one of the reasons he finally
told people to shove Teledisk beyond the reach of solar illumination...
</rant>
If anyone can help check out 1.17, that would be much appreciated.
Regards,
Dave
--
dave06a (at) Dave Dunfield
dunfield (dot) Firmware development services & tools:
www.dunfield.com
com Collector of vintage computing equipment:
http://www.classiccmp.org/dunfield/index.html