An upgrade of HDDRIVER is available. These are the most important change in HDDRIVER 12.00:
- Manual: The download now includes the up to date English and German manual as PDF.
- HDDRIVER: The SCSI emulation for IDE/SATA drives/memory cards supports all mandatory commands of the SBC-4 specification (SCSI Block Commands).
- HDDRIVER: With TT and Falcon SCSI the SCSI Driver supports 32 LUNs (sub-units) according to the SCSI specification. This SCSI Driver extension is backwards compatible.
- HDDRIVER: The code for initializing the PMMU of the Afterburner040 was extracted into an external program for the AUTO folder and a HDDRIVER module, resp. The README file in the FIXES/AB040MMU folder provides more information.
- HDDRIVER: AB040FIX (FIXES folder) has been renamed to ALTRAMFX. It is required for Falcons with Alternate RAM (Afterburner040, DFB1, CT*) in order to use SCSI peripherals. The README file in the FIXES/ALTRAMFX folder provides more information.
- HDDRIVER: Various optimizations.
- HDDRIVER: The Medusa Txx hardware is no longer supported. The Hades is not affected.
- HDDRUTIL: The device check uses an improved/optimized query of LUNs and now also detects non-consecutive LUNs.
- HDDRUTIL: The new function "Drive->Clear Data" clears the FATs and the root directory of a partition. This is equivalent to deleting all files, but is much faster.
- HDDRUTIL: "Edit Partitions" supports changing the boot mask bit. Together with an explicit boot preference (TOS or TT SVR4) this mask determines which operating system is booted by default. Only the values $00 (not bootable, $80 (bootable TOS) and $40 (bootable TT SVR4) were specified by Atari.
- HDDRUTIL: When copying sectors the current sector number and the total sector count are displayed.
- HDDRUTIL: The "Device Check" dialog now has a scrollbar.
- HDDRUTIL: The sector test after formatting is now optional.
- HDDRUTIL: Various user interface improvements.