Talk:Direct Access Archive

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[edit] Is this a real format?

I can't find a formal specification for this file format anywhere, including the poweriso website. Is this a real format or just some proprietary file format used by some rarely used application? I can't even verify the "feature set" described in the writeup. --BWD ^(talk) 18:23, 16 July 2006 (UTC)

This IS proprietary compression and as such, no standard exists for it. If anyone has a solution from the open source community as to how to break this company's monopoly over disc imaging and compression, which is beoming commonplace on the Torrents, then you have full encouragement from me! 80.195.170.69 18:54, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

Yes, this is a proprietary and undocumented storage file format indeed. Very little is known on it, apart from its featureset. It seems to be using solid archival for its compressed scheme, even when creating an uncompressed image. Solid state is uncommon with image archives, so instead of renaming compressed DAA to a uncompressable image format, it'd make sense to rename it to another disk image extension (that can handle compression). It might be mountable then, but havent tried so. --Omega Said 18:13, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Not sure but..

I think (but I'm not certain...) that you can rename a .daa file to .iso and it will load in Alcohol 120%. I'm sure I've done this in the past, but can someone confirm that it works/doesn't work. Thanks Martinp23 19:11, 16 July 2006 (UTC)

Renaming a .daa to .iso did NOT work for me. I tried to open it in Nero and WinRAR. Fsamuels 20:55, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

And it *cannot* work if compression was used in .daa. It won't work. Don't do it.