dvdisaster Changelog

What's new in dvdisaster 0.72.3

Apr 8, 2012
  • Fixed a problem with the "Verify" function when working with RS01 error correction files larger than 2GB. Thanks to Volodymyr Bychkoviak for reporting the problem and sending a fix. (05-Okt-2011)

New in dvdisaster 0.72.2 (Apr 8, 2012)

  • This version introduces a workaround which prevents parallel SCSI adapters from freezing under Linux. Upward compatibility with versions 0.79.x has been improved
  • The Windows and Mac OS X versions are now built with the development environment of dvdisaster 0.79.x and are therefore shipped with newer versions of the GTK+ graphical toolkit libraries. This update requires some changes in internal scripts resulting in a different checksum of the source package (the package published on Oct 31th had the md5 checksum 86110e212aa1bf336a52ba89d3daa93d and is still valid for Linux, FreeBSD and NetBSD).(07-11-2010)

New in dvdisaster 0.72.1 (Apr 8, 2012)

  • Pablo Almeida provided Portuguese translations of the screen texts. Added workaround to avoid Win XP freezing on certain CD-RW/drive pairs.(08-Aug-2009)
  • Update: The workaround has been found to be ineffective in some cases. A better workaround is included in version 0.79.x; unfortunately it can not be easily backported into the stable version. (06-Feb-2010)

New in dvdisaster 0.72 (Jul 6, 2009)

  • This is the first stable version of the 0.72 branch. Igor Gorbounov has completed the russian online documentation. Some minor bugs from the first release candidate have been removed.

New in dvdisaster 0.72 RC1 (Apr 23, 2009)

  • Documentation and locale cleanup for en, de
  • Graphical bug: red/green sector markings were incorrect when doing linear reading with high sector skip numbers. Fixed.
  • Speed curve will no longer travel below the x axis.
  • fixed rare crash while linear reading due to a race condition by improper ClearCrcCache() usage.
  • fixed bogus dead sector warning in the linear reader after encountering unreadable sectors
  • made adaptive reading pursue raw reading more aggressively; effectively trading in place re-reads for seeks over the medium.
  • help output for --defective-dump was complete nonsense. Fixed.
  • detection of read errors at the end of track at once disks would sometimes cut off too many sectors when doing multiple reading passes and a carefully crafted number of extra read errors occurred. Fixed.
  • fixed crash in command line mode when doing multiple reading passes.

New in dvdisaster 0.71.27 (Jan 26, 2009)

  • Verifying RS02 images would sometimes show slightly incorrect numbers of recoverable sectors in the "Prognosis: " line. Fixed.
  • showing media info would sometimes go wild when called on empty drive. Will now report missing media correctly.
  • fixed infinite loop on disk full state
  • fixed failure on writing ecc files with now possible larger cache settings in command line mode
  • increased encoder cache size to 8GB for RS01 and RS02
  • some fine-tuning in recover-raw.c; added recognition of bad sectors whose data portion is actually good; added trivial correction by resetting the sync pattern
  • corrected a data flow anomaly and missing parentheses in heuristic-lec.c
  • Blank capacity of DVD-RAM could not be queried. Fixed.
  • English and German documentation finished.
  • fixed crash when using ancient CD-ROM drives.
  • more robust handling for incomplete/unfinalized media; should produce less dreaded "couldn't query [several possiblilities] length" errors now ;-)
  • added on-the-fly checkum verification for RS02
  • skipped color glitch in the GUI; skipped sectors would not always be marked blue in the spiral
  • reading media in multiple passes could crash on finish due to a race condition on very fast systems; fixed.
  • started support for a new missing sector marker

New in dvdisaster 0.71.26 Alpha (Aug 14, 2008)

  • Contains a new dialog providing information about inserted media (menu
  • Tools/Medium info); during this course detection of media types (CD/DVD/BD) was
  • changed. Please report if this breaks compatibility with formerly working drives.
  • Improved support for BD media.