summaryrefslogtreecommitdiff
path: root/sysutils/dvdisaster/DESCR
AgeCommit message (Collapse)AuthorFilesLines
2012-02-04Update to 0.72.3. Notable changes:shattered1-6/+6
- Blu-ray support - added CD raw reading and majority algorithm - C2 scanning support for CD media - changed treatment of CRC failures: old behaviour was to store a defective sector marker; now the actual sector contents are written to the image file. - Using the CDROM_SEND_PACKET ioctl() will hang parallel SCSI adapters. Added tests to determine the SCSI bus type, and switch to the SG_IO ioctl() when in doubt. [Linux] - fixed and documented -n command line options for RS02.
2007-06-08Initial import of dvdisaster 0.70.4. from pkgsrc-wip.heinz1-0/+13
The package was created by Sergey Svishchev, some changes done by me. CD and DVD media keep their data only for a finite time (typically for many years). After that time, data loss develops slowly with read errors growing from the outer media region towards the inside. Dvdisaster stores data on CD/DVD in a way that it is fully recoverable even after some read errors have developed. This enables you to rescue the complete data to a new medium. Data loss is prevented by using error correcting codes. Error correction data is either added to the medium or kept in separate error correction files. dvdisaster works at the image level so that the recovery does not depend on the file system of the medium. The maximum error correction capacity is user-selectable.