Aaru/NEEDED.md

This is a list of hardware, software, and general information needed to expand and better support various unique hardware and software configurations for DiscImageChef. 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

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.

• 5.25" magneto-optical (preferibly the 9.6Gb supporting one)
• 8" shugart floppy drive (preferibly the 240VAC one)
• ADR tape drive
• AIT tape drive
• Apple FileWare "twiggy"
• Caleb UHD144
• Castlewood Orb 5.7
• DLT tape drive
• DiscFerret
• Host-aware and host-controlled SAS and SATA zoned hard disks
• Insite floptical
• Iomega Bernoulli (not the 90Mb one)
• Iomega Ditto tape drive
• Iomega JAZ
• Iomega JAZ 2
• Iomega ZIP750
• LD-ROM
• LTO 1, 3, 4, 6, 7
• LV-ROM
• Mammoth tape
• Panasonic Blu-ray recorder
• Plasmon UDO 2
• SLR tape drive
• Sony MD-DATA (e.g. MDM-111, MDH-10)
• Stringy floppy drive
• Syquest EZ135 drive
• Syquest EZFlyer drive
• Syquest Quest drive
• Syquest SQ2542 drive
• Syquest SQ306RD drive
• Syquest SQ312RD drive
• Syquest SQ319RD drive
• Syquest SQ3270 drive
• Syquest SQ5110 drive
• Syquest SQ555 drive
• Syquest SyJet drive
• T9840, T9940, T10000 tape drives
• Travan tape drive
• Triton drive
• VXA tape drive

Media

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.

• 3.5" magneto-optical media: 540MiB, 2.3GiB GigaMO
• 5.25" magneto-optical media: 128MiB, 640MiB, 9.6GiB
• ADR tapes
• AIT tapes
• Apple FileWare "twiggy" floppies
• Caleb UHD144 floppy
• Castlewood Orb 5.7
• DLTtape, DLTtapeII, DLTtapeIII
• Recordable and rewritable HD-DVD
• Iomega Bernoulli (not the 90MiB one)
• Iomega Ditto drive and tapes
• LD-ROM
• LTO 3, 4, 6, 7 tapes
• LV-ROM
• Mammoth tapes
• Plasmon UDO 2
• SLR tapes
• Sony HiFD floppy
• Sony MD-DATA discs
• Stringy floppy
• Syquest EZ135 media
• Syquest Quest media
• Syquest SQ2542 media
• Syquest SQ100 media
• Syquest SQ200 media
• Syquest SQ300 media
• Syquest SQ2000 media
• Syquest SQ400 media
• Syquest SyJet media
• T9840, T9940, T10000 tapes
• Travan tapes
• Triton media
• VXA tapes

Software

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.

• CD-i Ready
  • A Christmas Songbook
  • Accelerator
  • Alien Gate
  • Beyond Limits
  • Escape
  • Lucky Luke
  • Louis Armstrong
  • Dark Fables of Aesop
  • More Dark Fables of Aesop
  • Mozart
  • Opera Imaginaire
  • Pavarotti
  • Steel Machine
  • The Apprentice
  • Dimo's Quest
  • The Worlds of...
• SafeDisc
  • Beowulf
  • Black & White 2
  • Brothers in Arms: Road to Hill 30
  • Carmageddon II: Carpocalypse Now
  • Close Combat: Invasion Normandy
  • Codename: Eagle
• SecuROM
  • Arabian Nights
  • Arcania: Gothic 4
  • Boiling Point: Road to Hell
  • Cars 2
  • Clive Barker's Jericho
  • Colin McRae Rally 04
  • Colin McRae Rally 2.0
  • Colin McRae Rally 3
  • Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 - Uprising
  • Devil May Cry 4
  • Die Hard: Nakatomi Plaza
  • Disney Planes
• StarForce
  • Black Mirror 3
  • BloodRayne 2
  • Chronostorm: Siberian Border
  • Codename: Outbreak
  • Dead to Rights
  • Disciples III: Renaissance
  • Mount & Blade
  • Pac-Man World 2
• Tages
  • Anno 1701
  • Darkstar One
  • Faery: Legends of Avalon
  • Helldorado
  • Nostradamus: The Last Prophecy
  • Silverfall
• 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