Purpose

The purpose of this repository is to work with and document a library of media.

• Block Device Images: Dumps of the block device with ddrescue and other metadata.
  • USB drives: ddrescue dump and output from lsusb as well as pictures of the devices themselves.
  • Memory cards: I don't have serial numbers for these. The best I can do is pictures and descriptions of the cards.
  • Zip disks: Includes pictures and decriptions of the disks.
  • Hard drives: Includes pictures of the drives as well as smartctl -x and hdparm output.
• Analog Audio/Video
  • VHS tapes: These are a work in progress. I have a giant pile of VHS tapes and wish to digitize them.
  • Microcassettes: These are low-quality mono recordings from an answering machine or portable recorder.
  • Compact cassettes: These are mostly stuff recorded off the radio.
• Other
  • Scanned paper documents: Large numbers of PDFs and perhaps a few other files that were scanned using a Fujitsu ScanSnap iX500 and other devices.
  • Optical media: Images of CDs, DVDs, and other optical media. For most of these, the top surface of the disc was scanned at high resolution.
  • Floppy disks: Images acquired using a few different techniques including the normal floppy drive controller or a SuperCard Pro device. Includes available metadata.