IsoBuster’s heuristic routines to determine the sector size by itself are unparalleled, and improved once again in this version, so IsoBuster doesn’t really need it, but it will make life easier for everyone and it’s ideal for images that contain data that doesn’t 100% correlate to a specific sector size. The beauty is that now any application immediately knows what the correct sector size is inside the generic image.

In practice (because I haven’t seen any other situation) you will encounter this on 4Kn drives (4096 bytes per block: *.4Kn) and Plasmon UDO2 drives (8192 bytes per block: *.8Kn). Basically when IsoBuster now creates a generic block per block image file of a drive that natively contains more than 512 bytes per block, it uses the appropriate extensions: *.1Kn – *.64Kn.

The naming convention has been inspired by the “Advanced Format (4K native)”. Also new in this version is the support for brand new file extensions *.1Kn, *.2Kn, *.4Kn, *.8Kn and so on (instead of the generic *.dsk for instance).

Isobuster pro 3.8 build 3.8.0.0