These are the main changes in HDDRIVER 13.00:
- HDDRIVER: A next-generation ramdisk has been integrated. This ramdisk is a fully functional SCSI drive and supports the XHDI and SCSI Driver standards that are essential for the Atari. It can be up to 255 MiB in size, and is configurable in 1 MiB increments.
- HDDRIVER: Support of 32 bit DMA for faster SCSI transfers with the Suska-IV board with SCSI/DMA core. The availability of 32 bit DMA is detected automatically.
- HDDRIVER: Accelerated ACSI/SCSI transfers if data because of hardware limitations cannot be transferred directly to/from a memory address (STs and Falcons with Alternate-RAM, TTs with Alternate-RAM and ACSI devices), but must be copied via a buffer (_FRB).
- HDDRIVER: Further improved automatic IDE port detection, especially on not officially supported hardware.
- HDDRIVER: Improvements to the SCSI Driver, e.g. regarding the SCSI emulation for IDE drives.
- HDDRIVER: The module interface has proven its worth, so modules are now always executed, and not just optionally.
- HDDRIVER/HDDRUTIL: Extensive code review with numerous optimizations. HDDRIVER 13 is the most compact HDDRIVER in over 25 years: 25% smaller than - HDDRIVER 7.93 despite a significantly larger feature set and additional hardware support.
- HDDRUTIL: Initializing partitions has been improved further. Just as when partitioning, the TOS compatiblity can now be set. Furthermore, entering the number of sectors per cluster and bytes per sector is now optional, which simplifies usage.
- HDDRUTIL: When splitting a medium into partitions, you can enter a maximum partition size. The default value is just below the maximum partition size of the current operating system, which simplifies creating partitions with maximum size.
- HDDRUTIL: When partitioning with a GPT scheme, the partitions are automatically aligned to 8 sector boundaries. This provides optimal performance, especially with memory cards, SSDs and modern hard drives.
- HDDRUTIL: The GPT partition editor provides for editing the GPT attributes as well as the start start sector and the sector count. 64 bit sector numbers are supported, so that partition tables for other platforms and large media can also be edited.
- HDDRUTIL: GPT partition entries can be added, removed, moved or sorted by their start sectors. This makes it possible to subsequently modify a partition layout without data loss on the unaffected partitions. The manual provides further information.
- HDDRUTIL: The GPT partition editor detects duplicate partition names and duplicate partition GUIDs.
- HDDRUTIL: When partitioning with a GPT, partitions for different platforms, such as TOS, Windows, macOS or Linux, can be created on the same medium. As before, HDDRUTIL automatically creates FAT16/FAT32 file systems for TOS and Windows partitions.
- HDDRUTIL: Improved support for gaps (placeholders) in a GPT.
- HDDRUTIL: The partition table can be exported to a text file instead of the clipboard, and additional data are exported
- HDDRUTIL: In the preferences, you can specify whether MBR or GPT is the default for the compatibility settings during partitioning.
- HDDRUTIL: With "Test Device/Driver" you can test devices and drivers for compatibility with important Atari standards without having to download the test suite separately. The tests are identical to those in the test suite and are open source.
- HDDRUTIL: "Unlock after Reset" and "Unpark after Reset" haben been combined into a single option.
- HDDRUTIL: Numerous improvements to support for media > 2 TiB.
- HDDRUTIL: Numerous user interface improvements.