Hi Robie,
> > write such a program yourself. But this will be quite some work.
>
> Reading is (compared to writing) easy. Writing is a different story; I
> somehow have to get bad segment information while it's writing (seems
> like a patch to ftape may be necessary, I haven't really looked into
> it yet).
Well, that is not really needed but might be convenient. You have
access to the header segments via the MTIOCRDFTSEG ioctls. Afterwards
you can parse the data and get the bad sector information.
> My plans currently only include reading. So far the decompression has
> been a right pain; my implementation has been unreliable at best. I'm
Well, the compression algorithm is NOT in the public domain. You might
get problems when releasing your program to the public.
> still trying to iron the bugs out. Unfortunately I'm not sure that
> they are all my bugs, as there is at least one error where Ditto Tools
> doesn't follow the QIC standard as a result (not that Iomega/Tecmar
> are at fault, they never said that they are following QIC :-(
:-o
> It's nowhere near useable yet; I haven't done the easy bit, which is
> the actual extraction given uncompressed results. That bit is
> straightforward but will be a bit time consuming to code (which is why
> I haven't got around to it yet :-)
>
> BTW, no GDittoTools, my code is strictly commandline. Someone else can
> do a GUI, as I won't use it :-)
Command line tools are hip. Unix _IS_ user friendly.
Cheers
Claus
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