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[mailto:cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org]On Behalf Of Chuck Guzis
On 7/15/2006 at 3:09 PM Fred Cisin wrote:
GCR
MFM without WD/IBM sector headers (Amiga)
certain address marks
with some FDC's FM
with some FDC's 128 byte sectors
damaged disks (both accidents and some copy protection)
Also:
Hard-sectored
"Strange" recording methods (e.g. OSI)
--Chuck
Fred and Chuck seem to sum it up quite nicely. The "image" programs like
teledisk and imagedisk are very limited in what they can image. What they do, they do very
well, but they rely on a WD or WD emulated chip in the floppy control circuit. Since the
current copyright standing of teledisk is not known to me, but that of imagedisk is, for
these quick and dirty copies, I rely on ImageDisk. If I find images in teledisk, I write
them out to physical media and re-read them into ImageDisk files.
The catweasel does not rely on the WD style controllers. It can handle the
"funny" address marks, hard sector disks, GCR, read and write FM formats
reliably, and has a host of options for dealing with damaged disks.
Just my $0.02...
Kelly