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Schenefeld, 12-Feb-92
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The author of this program is not responsible for any damages by using this
material.
HDFixer is a SHAREWARE program. If you continue to use it after some trial
period, please support SHAREWARE authors by sending in your registration and
US $5 (or DM 10).
HDFixer can be freely distributed (only the whole package) :
The program : 'HDFixer' 9999 bytes
The documentation : 'HDFixer.DOC' 9999 bytes
provided the copyright notice is intact and no commercial use is made with it
without the written permission of the author.
Send bug reports, improvements and registrations to
Address : Peter-Iver Edert
Moorweg 32
2000 Schenefeld
Germany
What is it ?
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Using this program kickstart V37.175 owners are able to use the 1.71 MB sized
A3000 HDDisks.
If you are owning a relative new A3000 and you are working with Kickstart
V37.175 then attention !
Some of the newer A3000 have got high-density-floppy drives. Just test it.
Insert a HDDisk, perhaps borrowed from a PC-User, and format it. If the CLI-
Command 'Info' shows a diskcapacity of about 1759K you are owning a HD disk-
drive.
But, in the current version of the kickstart HD-Disks are not 100% supported.
There is a bug in the trackdisk.device so a use of both disksystems is not
possible without getting write errors on the rootblock. A reboot is necessary
to change the disksystem.
HDFixer fixes the bug of kickstart V37.175 so that a normal use of both disk-
systems DD and HD is now possible.
(In Kickstart V37.2 the bug will be fixed and a use of both disksystems would
be able without usind HDFixer.)
How to use it :
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Simply start HDFixer from Workbench or from CLI or drag it in your
'WBStartup' directory. Note : The Tool type 'DONOTWAIT' is already set.
Using the argument '?' a short info about HDFixer would be shown. Normaly
HDFixer opens a title-only-window on the Workbenchscreen. If you want to hide
the window '-h' must be set as argument.
To terminate HDFixer click on the closegadget of its window. If the window is
hidden, just hold down both mousebutton during the next diskchange.
Note: You can probably find some way to crash the program that I have not
tried yet, but I hope not !
Thanks to Olaf Ramcke who answered my programming questions and to Commodore-
Amiga for the best personal computer money can buy (Sorry, Steven J. !?) and
to all those who sent in their SHAREWARE registrations !
Bye, Peter-Iver