What software can I use to read vlv & vli disk image file?

Question

It is a pretty old disk image created in 2008.

There are two files

• ST38421A.part1.vlv 5,198,984,607 bytes.
• ST38421A.vli 111 bytes

The first 8 bytes of the .vlv file is VLDskImg

The contents of ST38421A.vli is

[SIGNATURE]
SIGNATURE={985DED36-057F-4203-BAB2-61BCCEBB6D4F}
[FILESLIST]
COUNT=1
FILE1=ST38421A.part1.vlv

Thank you very much.

Answer 1

Although I still haven't managed to find a software to open the file. I figured out the structure of the vlv file:

• First 512 bytes seems to contain header information such as disk model and size

It is followed by some "blocks" of data, each block contains:

• 256 x 4 = 1024 bytes of unsigned int array (little-endian). They are the ending offsets, relative to the beginning of this "block", of 256 "chunks"
• 256 "chunks" follows, each chunk is either DEFLATE compressed (when length < 131072 bytes, uncompressed size = 131072 bytes) or uncompressed (when length = 131072 bytes)