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--- himdlinux [2009/04/10 17:54] – stephen
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 ====== HiMDLinux ======
-This is precisely not the proper place for this comment but I thought I might start the ball rolling (my first contribution) with some ideas of things about MD that may give a clue to its operation. Of course this may be all old knowledge to you, so please tell me right away if that is the case.
+The only current software available is "libhimd" and "qhimdtransfer" from our project.
-Please, please, someone tell me the right place to put this. I have some ideas on how the encryption must work (as a result of some other accidents), and maybe will offer this as #2 in whatever the proper section is that you decide to save this.
-====== Number 1 ======
-I am lucky/unlucky enough to be the owner of a HiMD recorder (NH700) with no overwrite head. The story can be found here:
-http://forums.minidisc.org/index.php?showtopic=22161
-(Sorry I will figure out how to embed links properly "later").
-This machine has a few odd properties that it shares with any machine whose overwrite head is disconnected, bust or misaligned. One of these is that you can completely erase a disc but not write to it. This led me to write protect the disc I inserted into it. Whilst this disk was playing, suddenly I get the message about pressing Y to format the disk. The stuff in the german jottings mentioned something like this though I have to read more carefully. I instead took the disk out, and was (later) able to play the disk perfectly. However it suggests some weird things about the way the format works (and nothing to do with SonicStage).
-Of course it is well known that a write-protected disk cannot be read from by Sonic Stage. Well - cannot be *uploaded* from.
-I think these two observations (the write protect and the attempt to format during playback of write protected disk) are probably related. I would be willing to undertake some experiments if anyone here thinks that would advance the understanding a little more. Clearly an overwrite head that is completely missing is more "reliable" than a machine with an intermittent connection via a "dodgy" ribbon cable?
-Stephen in Vancouver