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It’s 2024. You can’t develop a low-level disk tool, because there is no such thing as a low-level disk interface anymore. Using the rawest available interface,
by wrs 2y ago
It’s 2024. You can’t develop a low-level disk tool, because there is no such thing as a low-level disk interface anymore. Using the rawest available interface, your tool will be several levels of abstraction away from the level Spinrite claims to operate at. It’s like saying you’re going to get AWS S3 to rewrite an object by accessing it through the HTTP API. I mean, sure, maybe, but any copy will do that just as well.
It may “work”, but the question is whether it works better than simple ddrescue.
- mixmastamyk 2y agoAnd DropBox is not needed either when rsync exists, right? Reality is that many fewer people know Linux than Windows tools. Lots of proprietary software is used when floss would do.
- Dylan16807 2y agoSpinRite is not a windows tool.
- mixmastamyk 2y agoWindows ancestor, the DOS TUI.
- Dylan16807 2y agoThat's not easier than a linux boot disk.
- mixmastamyk 2y agoDoesn’t matter, people are familiar with what they are familiar with. And that is still M$ Windows, to a huge degree. Just had a client who only allowed MS App 2FA email for “security reasons.” Meaning the IT head couldn’t be bothered to understand anything else. Even better, free, open standards like TOTP or FIDO2.
- effie 2y agoCan you say explicitly here what exactly does Mr. Gibson or Spinrite software claim about the level Spinrite operates at? Because I've heared him say Spinrite uses either the slow BIOS interface, or his own (IDE,AHCI?) drivers. These modes of operating the disk are, as far as I know, quite possible. Operating systems use them as well.