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- Released July 4th, 1993
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- ’Õµ 4_Drive Utilities v1.0 ≥ Multiple Port Address AT/IDE Drive Inquiry
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- ≥ (405) 741-4705 Voice Drive 0 Drive 1
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- ≥ Copyright 1993 by Dustbowl Designs, Inc. All rights reserved. ≥
- ≥ 12600 S.E. 38th Street, Choctaw, Oklahoma USA 73020-6107 ≥
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- You are free to copy this software and distribute it to other users as
- long as the archive file is distributed in its entirety with this text
- file included in the archive.
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- ≥±±± Introduction ±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±≥
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- We've decided to release to the public a handy in-house AT/IDE inquiry
- utility. What's particularly useful about this rendition is that you
- may talk to drives that are attached to either the Primary or
- Secondary Port Addresses. This ability dovetails nicely with our
- 3_Drives and DiskQwik shareware utilities. Also, we've emphasized the
- newer Multiple Sectors, DMA and LBA transfer options that are soon to
- be more generally available on AT/IDE drives.
-
- The 4_Drive Utilities is designed to assist in the use of our
- 3/4_Drives and DiskQwik products by suggesting the command line
- switches that these programs may use. This utility also serves as a
- basic AT/IDE Inquiry that can give you the Cylinder, Head, Sectors per
- Track geometry used by your AT/IDE drive.
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- This inquiry is defined and works on AT/IDE and ESDI interface
- drives.
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- Plans for 4_Drive Utilities include MBR and Partition Record
- preparation and analysis, Multiple Sectors transfer rate test and much
- more.
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- ≥±±± Command Line Switches ±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±≥
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- This program will accept three basic command line switches. If no
- command line switches are placed, then the program will run
- interactively, asking for which Port and which Drive:
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- [P]rimary or [S]econdary: s
- Drive [0] or [1]: 1
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- You can load this info up on the command line as: 4DRVUTIL s 1
-
- Additionally, if you place the m on the command line, all hi-ASCII
- bytes will be masked out of the hex data dump. This is useful when
- printing, as these characters can cause unpredictable results.
-
- Example: 4DRVUTIL s 1 m >drive2-1.dat
- (then hit the enter key a few times..) will create an ASCII file of
- this program's output....
-
- Drive/Controller Model: My Drive MD-123A
- Serial number: 00123456789000000000, Controller firmware: REV. AA
- Cylinders: 969, Heads: 9, Sectors: 36
- DMA mode: NOT AVAILABLE
- LBA mode: NOT AVAILABLE
- Multiple sector mode: 64 sector/interrupt max
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- switches: 3/4_Drives m0+ or m0 (either 64 or 32 sectors per interrupt)
- DiskQwik b064 rm0 wm0
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- Buffer size: 128 KBytes (256 sectors)
- A dual ported multi-sectored buffer capable of simultaneous transfers with
- a read caching capability.
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- Word Offset Data----------------------------------- ASCII------------------
- 0 0000 4A32 C903 0000 0900 9051 4402 2400 100C J2 .. .. .. .Q D. $. ..
- 8 0010 0B00 0F00 3030 3231 3433 3635 3837 3039 .. .. 00 21 43 65 87 09
- 16 0020 3030 3030 3030 3030 0300 4000 0400 4552 00 00 00 00 .. @. .. ER
- 24 0030 2E56 4120 2041 794D 4420 6972 6576 4D20 .V A A yM D ir ev M
- 32 0040 2D44 3231 4133 2020 2020 2020 2020 2020 -D 21 A3
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- 40 0050 2020 2020 2020 2020 2020 2020 2020 0100 ..
- 48 0060 0000 0100 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ..
- 56 0070 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ..
- 64 0080 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ..
- etc.....etc
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- ≥±±± Outline ±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±≥
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- The structure of the 256 words (512 bytes) is as follows:
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- 0 General configuration
- 1 cylinders (default xlat mode)
- 2 reserved... ESDI: Removables
- 3 heads (default xlat mode)
- 4 bytes per track (unformatted)
- 5 bytes per sector (unformatted)
- 6 sectors/track (default xlat mode) hi=reserved lo=SPT
- 7 IDE:vendor unique... ESDI: bytes intersector gap lo=ISG hi=index gap
- 8 IDE:vendor unique... ESDI: bytes in sync lo=PLO bytes hi=reserved
- 9 words unique status
- 10 serial number in ASCII 20 bytes
- 20 controller or buffer type
- 21 buffer size in 512 byte blocks
- 22 ECC bytes transferred in r/w long
- 23 firmware revision in ASCII 8 bytes
- 27 model number ID in ASCII 40 bytes
- 47 number of sectors/interrupt in multiple, 00h = not implemented
- bits 8-15 are vendor unique
- 48 double word transfer flag
- 49 capabilities...LBA and/or DMA
- 0-7 vendor unique
- 8 1=DMA supported
- 9 1=LBA supported
- 10-15 reserved
- 50 reserved...
- 51 PIO data xfer timing mode lo=vendor unique
- 52 DMA data xfer timing mode lo=vendor unique
- 53 translation mode valid for words 54-58, 1-15 is reserved
- 54 translation cylinders
- 55 translation heads
- 56 translation sectors/track
- 57 number of sectors - low
- 58 number of sectors - high
- 59 current multiple setting
- 0-7 current SPT if multiple valid
- 8 1=multiple sector valid
- 9-15 reserved
- 60 LBA sectors - low
- 61 LBA sectors - high
- 62 single word DMA
- 63 multi word DMA
- 64 reserved
- 128 vendor unique data
- 160 to end= reserved
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- This section will be expanded in the next release!
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- LICENSE AGREEMENT
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- There is no registration requirement for this version of 4_Drive
- Utilities.
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- 4_Drive Utilities All versions.
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- Dustbowl Designs, Inc. provides the accompanying object code software
- ("Software") and nonexclusively licenses its use on the following
- terms and conditions. The Software is copyrighted by Dustbowl Designs,
- Inc. with all rights reserved. YOU ASSUME FULL RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE
- SELECTION OF THE SOFTWARE TO ACHIEVE YOUR INTENDED PURPOSES, FOR THE
- PROPER INSTALLATION AND USE. Dustbowl Designs, Inc. DOES NOT WARRANT
- THAT THE SOFTWARE WILL MEET YOUR REQUIREMENTS, THAT THE SOFTWARE IS
- FIT FOR ANY PARTICULAR PURPOSE OR THAT THE USE OF THE SOFTWARE WILL BE
- ERROR FREE. Dustbowl Designs, Inc. EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES,
- WHETHER ORAL OR WRITTEN, EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING WITHOUT
- LIMITATION WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
- PURPOSE. IN NO EVENT WILL Dustbowl Designs, Inc. BE LIABLE TO YOU,
- YOUR CUSTOMERS OR OTHER USERS FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL,
- CONSEQUENTIAL, SPECIAL OR EXEMPLARY DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF OR IN
- CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR INABILITY TO USE THE SOFTWARE.
-
- 3_Drives, 4_Drives and DiskQwik are a trademarks of Dustbowl Designs,
- Inc. The 4_Drive Utilities software and documentation are Copyright 1993 by
- Dustbowl Designs with All Rights Reserved. The 3_Drives v3.0, 4_Drives
- v3.0 and 4_Park v1.1 software programs ARE NOT shareware or freeware
- and unauthorized redistribution is STRICTLY PROHIBITED.
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- End of License agreement.
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- ≥±±± Revision History ±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±±≥
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- v1.0 07/93 - public release of Shareware 4_Drive Utilities v1.0.
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- Contents of the 4_Drives Utilities Distribution Set. 4DRVU100.ZIP
- (4DRVU.ZIP on CompuServe (tm) go IBMHW forum Lib 1)
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- 4DRVUTIL.EXE An AT/IDE Identify Drive inquiry utility that shows
- which 3_Drive/4_Drive and DiskQwik command line
- switches work best. Designed to work on both Primary
- and Secondary Port Addresses.
- 4DRVUTIL.DOC Auxiliary documentation.
- DBOWLDEM.EXE Simple demo that gives a look at registered
- 4_Drives v3.0 and 4_Park v1.1, and our new DiskQwik
- programs.
- VENDOR3.DOC Shareware vendor distribution policy
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- All files dated 7-4-93 02:50:00.
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- ≥ 4_Drives and 3_Drives ≥
- From the ≥ The Universal device driver that lets you add ≥
- makers of: ≥ an additional 16-bit interface to your system. ≥
- ≥ Add up to two more MFM, RLL, ESDI, or AT/IDE ≥
- ≥ Hard Disk Drives to a Secondary Port Address! ≥
- ≥ Fast Disk I/O options registered versions. ≥
- ≥ ≥
- ≥ DiskQwik ≥
- ≥ A utility that maximizes the speed potential ≥
- ≥ of AT/IDE hard disk drives. Many newer IDE ≥
- ≥ drives often have an untapped feature called ≥
- ≥ "Multiple Sectors per Interrupt". By activating ≥
- ≥ this, you can increase the data transfer rate ≥
- ≥ of your hard drive by up to 50% .... ≥
- ≥ State of the Art! ≥
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- Shareware versions of these programs are available at all better
- BBS's! If you can't find a copy locally, feel free to call our BBS.
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- Dustbowl Designs, Inc. |
- 12300 S.E. 38th Street |
- Choctaw, Oklahoma 73020-6107 |
- U.S.A. | CIS: 71062,2542
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- phone:
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