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> mangle your raw images, specially if you want to dd/tar them back to the original machine dd back to the original media is no problem with stuff post-pended;
by mlyle 3y ago
> mangle your raw images, specially if you want to dd/tar them back to the original machine
dd back to the original media is no problem with stuff post-pended; dd will complain that there's an extra block at the end, but other than that, all's good.
> The goal is to preserve the data back and forth, not to ruin it.
A big part of the point of this change is to prevent you from attaching devices "wrong" in ways that are likely to cause the emulated environment to corrupt them. You can't do that in RAM, and it's better if it is in the same file.
- anthk 3y ago>You can't do that in RAM, and it's better if it is in the same file. No, that's a setting for the config file, or per machine by default in the settings, but never in the media itself. The old media should be pristine. If the user mangles some media because it attached some cd image as an RP disk under a Vax, it's his issue, is not an issue of the emulator.
- mlyle 3y agoIt's not "old media". It's a disk image in some format. Before it was just a raw disk image. Now it's a container format for a disk image--- that happens to generally work as a raw disk image, too. Either one keeps the original data pristine.