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How to install the demo version of HDDRIVER 7.6:
Make sure that a hard disk driver is installed that supports the SCSI
Driver and the XHDI specification. Currently only CBHD and HDDRIVER offer
support for both standards. In case you are in doubt simply copy the file
HDRIVER.PRG to a floppy disk. Boot your system from floppy disk and start
the program HDDRIVER.PRG.
Now start HDDRUTIL and choose "Install HDDRIVER" from the "Harddisk" menu. A
dialog box is displayed and you have to choose drive C: from the list of
drives and press OK. Reboot your the in order to activate HDDRIVER.
HDDRIVER initially checks only one drive on each bus (IDE device 0, SCSI
device 0, ACSI device 0). If you have more drives you have to configure
HDDRIVER accordingly. Choose the "Device Configuration" menu entry and
select the file HDDRIVER.SYS on partition C: in the file selector box.
Now you can activate all valid device numbers and leave the dialog box
with OK. If you want HDDRUTIL to automatically locate all connected drives,
select "Auto Configuring".
You can remove HDDRIVER by installing another hard disk driver according
to the installation instructions for this driver.
NOTE:
Drives that were partitioned with very old versions of the ICD hard disk
software are not AHDI compatible if they have more then 4 partitions.
In this case the installation of an AHDI compatible driver requires
repartitioning your drive with an AHDI compatible software package or
converting the existing partitioning scheme to an AHDI compatible scheme
with ICD2AHDI.
The preemptive multitasking of MagiC should be activated by the MagiC
timeslice CPX when using non-blocking transfers. Remove the line with the
TSL keyword from the file MAGX.INF. The MagiC README provides more
information. The most important thing to keep in mind when using non-
blocking DMA transfers: Each DMA driver has to support this transfer mode.
If this is not the case, data may be corrupted. MetaDOS and the drivers for
the SLM laser printer don't support background DMA. When using bus
arbitration or initiator identification (some drives require this,
especially the newer Quantum drives) you have to choose a unique SCSI ID
for TT and Falcon. TOS can't boot from these drives. On the Atari ST
drives that require initiator identification will only work with the
LINK96/97 host adapter.
Most Falcon computers have problems with their SCSI hardware especially with
high screen resolutions. Atari proposed several hardware fixes (clock patch)
and your dealer should know about them. As in contrast to other drivers
HDDRIVER drives Falcon SCSI with maximum speed, you might not have noticed
this problem before.
Limitations of the HDDRIVER demo version:
- Data can't be written on other partitions than C:
- Writing data is much slower than in the unlimited version. Data are read,
however, with maximum speed.
- SCSI drives can't be configured regarding cache and parity settings
- ZIP and JAZ drives can't be configured
- Formatting and Partitioning are not supported
- No software based write protection
- No additional tools that come with the full version (CPX for configuring
HDDRIVER etc.)
The most important features of the unlimited version:
- Runs on all Ataris, Hades, Medusa and Milan.
- Driver for Atari SH/Megafile, SCSI/SCSI-2/Ultra-SCSI, IDE/EIDE and ATAPI
drives
- SCSI Driver interface 1.01 for SCSI and ATAPI devices
- Works with all kinds of hard disks and removable media (MODs, PD, ZIP, JAZ,
SyQuest, Nomai, LS-120, ...)
- Capacity of SCSI and IDE/EIDE drives not limited by any HDDRIVER-specific
limitations
- Media with more than 512 physical bytes per sector (especially some MOD
media) are supported. On the ST an ICD compatible host adapter is required
in order to use this feature, e. g. the LINK96/97.
- Support for DOS/Windows formatted media
- DOS/Windows compatible partitioning, also for partitions > 32 MByte
- Reconstruction of partition data in case the root sector was corrupted
- XHDI compatible, supports the complete XHDI 1.30 command set
- Write protection for single partitions and for boot and root sectors.
- ZIP and JAZ media can be read or write protected on a password basis.
- SCSI initiator identification and bus arbitration support
- Statistics about read and write errors
- You can choose the boot partition by pressing a key or depending on the
computer's SCSI ID.
- Fast booting because you can configure the device numbers to be checked
- Arbitrary order of devices
- Optional "Fast ACSI" mode gives maximum transfer rates with most SCSI
drives connected to the ACSI bus
- Special support for ICD compatible host adapters. This allows drives
> 1 GByte to be used with the ST/STE without limitations.
- Important parameters of SCSI-2 devices can be configured (Cache, Parity,
Unit Attention).
- With the MagiC operating system you have direct access to 23 partitions
- With Big-DOS up to 29 partitions are possible
- Non-blocking DMA transfers with MagiC 3 or newer. Applications keep on
running while data are being transferred.
- Software for automatic parking of hard disks is included
Where to get HDDRIVER:
In the UK HDDRIVER is distributed with an English manual by System Solutions.
In Italy HDDRIVER with an Italian manual is available from Byte Service.
HDDRIVER and updates can also be ordered directly from the author (German
manual only):
Uwe Seimet
Luedersstrasse 4
D-76275 Ettlingen
email: Uwe.Seimet@bruker.de, us@ooc.de
The price of HDDRIVER 7.6 including a German manual and postage is 64 DM.
You can get HDDRIVER on DD or HD floppy disks.
The current demo version of HDDRIVER is always available in the Internet:
ftp://acp5.chemie.uni-kl.de/pub/atari/hddriver??_demo.zip
http://acp5.chemie.uni-kl.de/seimet/atari_english.html