catweasel method vs. amiga cd burner method of floppy archiving

[weirdami]

Would it be better to connect a CD burner (internal type from an old IBM) to my A1200 somehow and burn CD's that way, or would it be better to get one of them catweasel deals and hook it up to an IBM and burn CD's from the IBM? My A1200's HD is around 100 megs, so unless Amiga CD burning softwares do multiple sessions, I'll be making 100 meg CD's.

What I want to do is to get the stuff from all of my floppy disks onto CD before the disks die. If I run into some disks that need to be DiskSalved, am I right in thinking that the catweasel does DS type functions, or was that something else they were talking about at the last amiwest's panel discussion and banquet?

[weirdami]

@kennyr

So, when Jens (that's the name I remember) was giving his long techy speech at amiwest about getting data from all kinds of disks, what he meant was just getting at the data, not doing any kind of processing on the data?

It sounds kinda weird that DiskSalv would be able to work on just a pretend disk. Is the catweasel as good as, or better than, DS at figuring out what data really was supposed to be on those bad parts of the disk (without worrying why it's there like DS does, I imagine)? I remember DS making all kinds of noise on the floppy drive when bad data was encountered. I've spent hours and hours waiting for it to stop gronking and get me my data. :-)

So I take it that DS on UAE on a pretend floppy would take no time at all, right? Have you had success doing DS on UAE on pretend disks?

[weirdami]

Hey, speaking about DiskSalv, is it freeware now? There's a version 11.?? on aminet and some kind of patch files for version 3 (that patch version 12 for some reason?). What's the current version of DiskSalv?