Disk Image Characteristics

This comes up when you are opening a disk image and have either checked the "Confirm disk image format" box in Disk Image Preferences or are opening a disk that CiderPress does not fully recognize.

If CiderPress doesn't recognize the disk, you will probably need to choose a filesystem format, and may need to select the sector ordering.  For more information about these fields, see the detailed disk image discussion.

When opening an image with the disk sector viewer, you can select one of the "generic" formats if you don't know what format the disk is in.  The format you choose is combined with the sector ordering value to determine how blocks or sectors are read from the disk.  If you're trying to open the image in the file list, the "generic" formats will not be available.