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Welcome to dicformat wiki!

This wiki contains the specification of the native media dump format from The Disc Image Chef, known as dicformat.

It also contains the reasons why this format was created, its evolution, and logical, and physical descriptions of the media that dicformat is designed to archive.

About dicformat

• Why this format?
• dicformat specifications

Types of media

• Magnetical storage
  • Floppy disks
  • Optically tracked floppy disks (floptical)
  • Hard disks
  • Linear magnetic tapes
    • Data stored digitally
    • Data encoded as audio
• Optical storage
  • Reflective data storage
• Solid state storage
  • Byte addressable storage
  • Block addressable storage