dvdisaster Version 0.66  To the Internet version
Contents

Overview
Examples and screen shots
·Scanning media for errors
·Creating error correction data
·Reading defective media
·Recovering media images
·Getting information about images and error correction data
·Configuration
-General
-Reading
-Error correction
·Command syntax
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General Configuration

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Medium and Image filesystem

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These options work around some problems caused by drives reporting incorrect image lengths with DVD-RW/+RW media.

Use information from Ecc headers (1): The image size will be determined from the headers of the RS02 error correction information. If the image does not contain RS02 error correction data, the start of the reading process will be delayed significantly by setting this option.

Use information from ISO/UDF file system (2): dvdisaster will determine the image size from the ISO/UDF file system if this option is checked. If the image contains RS02 error correction information you must also set option (1). Otherwise the error correction data will not be included into the image.


Setting for local files

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Automatic file name extension(1): When this switch is set, files will be automatically appended with ".iso" or ".ecc" suffixes if no other file name extension is already present.

Split file into segments (2): Allows working with file systems which are limited to 2GB per file (e.g. FAT from Windows). Created files are spread over upto 100 segments called "medium00.iso", "medium01.iso" etc. at the cost of a small performance hit.


Automatic file creation and deletion

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Create error correction file (1): Automatically creates an error correction file after reading in an image. Together with the "Remove image" option this will speed up error correction file generation for a series of different media.

Remove image (2): If this switch is set, the image file will be deleted following the successful generation of the respective error correction file.

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