This is a list of hardware, software, and general information needed to expand and better support various unique
hardware and software configurations for Aaru. We accept donation of this hardware, or loans: paying for shipping is
greatly appreciated, but can make other arrangements depending on cost. For media, we do accept loans, but please be
aware that due to it’s age, there is no guarantee it will still be working after it is returned and thus donations are
preferred.

Drives
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This is a list of drives. The reason we need these drives is because it is the only way to add enhanced support for
them (e.g. media detection, ECC support, raw dumping, etc.). Also some drives depart from the specifications and need
special workarounds. If a drive is listed here, but the media it uses is not listed below, we already have media for it.
Drives are preferred in ATA/ATAPI, SCSI, USB or FireWire buses. Parallel port drives require a larger amount of work,
and there is no guarantee it can work, at all, with other drives. If in doubt, please contact us.

- 8" shugart floppy drive (preferibly the 240VAC one)
- AIT tape drive
- Apple FileWare "twiggy"
- Castlewood Orb 5.7
- DLT tape drive
- DiscFerret
- Host-aware and host-controlled SAS and SATA zoned hard disks
- Iomega Ditto tape drive
- LD-ROM
- LTO 1, 3, 4, 6, 7
- LV-ROM
- Mammoth tape
- Plasmon UDO 2
- SLR tape drive
- Stringy floppy drive
- Syquest Quest drive
- Syquest SQ2542 drive
- Syquest SQ306RD drive
- Syquest SQ312RD drive
- Syquest SQ5110 drive
- Syquest SQ555 drive
- T9840, T9940, T10000 tape drives
- Travan tape drive
- Triton drive
- VXA tape drive

Media
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This is the media for the drives listed above, or media for drives we do have, but lack and thus cannot test the actual
hardware.

- 5.25" magneto-optical media: 128MiB
- AIT tapes
- Apple FileWare "twiggy" floppies
- Castlewood Orb 5.7
- DLTtape, DLTtapeII, DLTtapeIII
- Rewritable HD-DVD
- Iomega Ditto drive and tapes
- LD-ROM
- LTO 3, 4, 6, 7 tapes
- LV-ROM
- Mammoth tapes
- Plasmon UDO 2
- SLR tapes
- Stringy floppy
- Syquest Quest media
- Syquest SQ2542 media
- Syquest SQ100 media
- Syquest SQ200 media
- Syquest SQ300 media
- T9840, T9940, T10000 tapes
- Travan tapes
- Triton media
- VXA tapes

Software
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This is a list of software whose physical media has some characteristics that needs to be investigated to allow correct
dumping of such characteristics. Usually those are copy protections.

- StarForce
  - Black Mirror 3
  - BloodRayne 2
  - Chronostorm: Siberian Border
  - Codename: Outbreak
  - Dead to Rights
  - Disciples III: Renaissance
  - Mount & Blade
  - Pac-Man World 2
- Solidshield
  - A-Train 8
  - Anno 2070
  - Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood
  - Dead Mountaineer's Hotel
  - Dead Space 2
  - Helldorado
  - I Am Alive
  - ObsCure II
  - Shift 2 Unleashed
  - Warfare

Information and test data
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This is a list of information I need, including test disk images.

- DiscFerret stream images
- Information about the KenCode compression algorithm, or an implementation in C or Pascal
- Information about the structure and compression algorithm for XPACK disk images, or an implementation in C
