Note that some of this information applies to the current version of HDDRIVER only.
- All Ataris, the Milan040/060, the Suska board and MIST. (Download the demo version to verify the compatibility with your hardware.)
- Atari SH/Megafile, SCSI, IDE and ATAPI drives, SATA devices with IDE-to-SATA adapter, removable media drives, SSDs, memory cards.
- Drives and memory cards of any capacity. SCSI drives with a capacity > 1 GiB connected to the ACSI bus require a suitable host adapter to use their full capacity, e.g. an adapter by Inventronik, an ICD Link or a LINK96/97. (TOS, MagiC or MiNT can only access 2 TiB. Software using the SCSI Driver and supporting 64 bit sector numbers can access sectors beyond the 2 TiB limit, e.g. HDDRUTIL or DISKUS.)
- The GigaFile SD card drive by Inventronik and the UltraSatan SD card drive by Lotharek.
- 8 configurable sub-units (LUNs) per SCSI/ACSI device.
- Up to 8 IDE/SATA devices (2 with Falcon IDE or the Thunder IDE interface for the TT, 4 with Milan IDE or the MonSTer board, 8 with The Doubler).
- Media with physical sector sizes of up to 2048 bytes.
- Automatic detection of ACSI hardware that supports high capacity media, e.g. ICD-compatible host adapters, GigaFile or UltraSatan.
- With many optical drives DVD-RAM, DVD+RW and BD-RE media can be used with a FAT filesystem like regular removable media.
Partitioning/Data Exchange
- Partitions can be assigned to drives A: and B:.
- With TOS 16 (A:-P:), with MagiC 25 (A:-Z: except U:), with MiNT or Big-DOS 31 (A:-Z: except U:, 1:-6:) drives.
- FAT16 partition sizes of up to 1 GiB (2 GiB with Big-DOS), depending on the TOS version (see FAQ for details).
- With MagiC or MiNT access to VFAT and FAT32 partitions (long filenames, virtually unlimited partition size).
- With MiNT access to Linux partitions (EXT2).
- Windows (Windows XP and newer) compatible partitioning (including FAT32)
with the Atari.
- TOS/Windows compatible partitioning for exchanging data with PCs and Macs without any additional software.
- Automatic detection of byteswapped media.
- Support for Master Boot Record and UEFI GUID partition tables (GPT).
- Special operating modes for extra fast ACSI and IDE data transfers.
- With MagiC non-blocking SCSI and ACSI data transfers: Applications keep
on running while data are being transferred in the background.
- Can be booted into Alternate RAM (TT-RAM), e.g. to boost the IDE transfer rate with the Thunder IDE interface.
- Integrated FOLDRxxx, CACHExxx and SCSIDRV functionality speeds up the boot process.
- For maximum speed and compact code HDDRIVER is coded in pure 68000 and 68030 assembler.
Device and Media Maintenance
- Formatting and partitioning.
- Editing/Initializing partition data, e.g. partition ID or cluster size.
- Loading and saving of complete drive or partition data (image files).
- Complete or partial copying of media, e.g. for cloning, backup or for exchanging data.
- Recovery of partition table in case the root sector was corrupted.
- Configuration settings of SCSI, ATAPI and SATA devices can be changed, e.g. the cache settings.
- Triggering of self-tests for devices supporting this feature.
- Sector Test
- Device Scan
- Easy and quick installation, all existing data are preserved.
- Modern user interface.
- Automatic and reliable media change detection (hot-swap).
- Configurable number of drive IDs to be reserved on removable media/memory cards.
- Boot drive selection (AUTO folder and ACCs) by simply pressing a key.
- Write protection for selected drives and for boot and root sectors.
- Auto-Sleep, Auto-Park and password protection for ZIP and JAZ drives.
- Configurable device and partition order, configurable LUN support.
- SCSI emulation/translation for IDE, ATAPI and SATA devices.
- The HDDRIVER software package includes numerous useful tools.
- All programs are bilingual (English and German).
- Detailed printed English or German manual.
- Updates can be downloaded for free.