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March 23, 2025: SCSI2Pi 5.1 is available

The new release of SCSI2Pi among other things extends the functionality of the SCSI-to-USB bridge, which allows to use USB mass storage devices with the Atari and other computers just like SCSI devices, without special USB hardware or drivers.

March 18, 2025: util-linux 2.41 is available

With the new release 2.41 the tools of the util-linux package, in particular fdisk, recognize the TOS GPT partitions created by HDDRUTIL 12.5:

Device       Start     End Sectors   Size Type
/dev/sdh1       34  482841  482808 235,7M Atari TOS basic data
/dev/sdh2   482842  965617  482776 235,7M Atari TOS raw data (XHDI)

Old fdisk versions only report "unknown". As usual, the new tools will be integrated in upcoming Linux distributions. Even old Linux versions can mount these partitions directly, without any special tools or kernel configurations.

January 10, 2025: SCSI-to-USB bridge

With HDDRIVER and SCSI2Pi you can use USB drives without special USB hardware or drivers. SCSI2Pi acts as a SCSI-to-USB bridge. This feature has been tested with a TT and a USB stick, a USB DVD drive and a USB floppy disk drive. HDDRIVER can boot from a USB drive, and with HDDRUTIL you can format floppy disks. USB drives can be mapped to drive A: or B:, e.g. in order to replace a broken floppy disk drive. Or you use USB sticks with MagiCMac (or MacOS), which was tested with a Performa630.
With a single external hardware an Atari now has access to emulated hard drives, removable media drives, MO drives, CD-ROM/DVD drives, tape drives (streamers), printers, network adapters, real USB drives and a realtime clock. Image files are simply copied to the Pi via the network and can be managed with the SCSI Control app, a web interface or on the command line (also remotely).

January 2, 2025: HDDRIVER 12.52 is available
The main changes in this version
December 4, 2024: HDDRIVER 12.51 is available
The main changes since HDDRIVER 11