[TUHS] 5ESS UNIX RTR Reference Manual - Issue 10 (2001)

[segaloco via TUHS]

On Tuesday, June 11th, 2024 at 6:37 PM, Jim Carpenter <jim at deitygraveyard.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 11, 2024 at 2:06 AM segaloco via TUHS tuhs at tuhs.org wrote:
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> > In any case, I intend to upload bin/cue images of all 7 of the CDs I've received which span from 1999 to 2007, and mostly concern the 5ESS-2000 switch from the administrative and maintenance points of view. Once I get archive.org to choke these files down I also intend to go back around to the discs I've already archived and reupload them as proper bin/cue rips. I was in a hurry the last time around and simply zipped the contents from the discs, but aside from just being good archive practice, I think bin/cue is necessary for the other discs as they seem to have control information in the disc header that is required by the interactive documentation viewers therein.
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> Bin/cue is a PITA. You've checked that a simple raw image isn't
> adequate? Perhaps the viewer was just checking the volume label?
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> Jim

What would you suggest?  My main point of reference is years and years of being in the console video game scene, bin/cue is the most accessible of the high fidelity formats I've seen for things, compared with say cdi and mdf/mds.  Does a plain old iso suffice for all relevant data from the media?  Frankly I've never done dumps on a UNIXy computer with an optical drive, only Windows boxen, so can't say I'm hip to the sort of disc image you get doing a dd from an optical /dev entry, maybe I just need to get a UNIX of some kind on my old beater game machine with an optical drive to do these dumps going forward.

Either way, open to suggestions on what format is the ideal combination of capturing everything that matters from optical media while not using too onerous or closed up of an image format.  This is not an area I'm "with the times on", I just went straight to what was customary for myself over a decade ago when I was last diligently interacting with optical media preservation.

- Matt G.