Features

Note that some of this information applies to the current version of HDDRIVER only.

Supported Hardware

All Ataris, the Milan040/060, the Suska board and MIST. (Check the compatibility with your hardware with the demo version.)
Atari SH/Megafile, SCSI, IDE and ATAPI drives, SATA drives 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 use 2 TiB. Software using the SCSI Driver and supporting 64 bit sector numbers can access sectors beyond the 2 TiB limit.)
The GigaFile SD card drive by Inventronik and the UltraSatan SD card drive by Lotharek.
The SatanDisk is not officially supported. It is recommended to use the UltraSatan or GigaFile instead.
Because of firmware issues SCSI2SD is not officially supported. (Also see the firmware issue list in the SCSI2SD release notes.) Verify the compatibility of your firmware with the HDDRIVER demo version.
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.
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: and 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, almost 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).

Speed

Special operating modes for extra fast ACSI and IDE data transfers (IDE READ/WRITE MULTIPLE).
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. (But also with any TT in order to allocate less ST-RAM.)
Integrated FOLDRxxx, CACHExxx and SCSIDRV functionality speeds up the boot process.
For maximum performance 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

Other Features

Easy and quick installation, all existing data are preserved.
Modern user interface.
Automatic detection of ACSI devices that support high capacity media, e.g. ICD-compatible host adapters, GigaFile or UltraSatan.
Automatic and reliable media change detection (hot-swap).
Configurable number of drive IDs to be reserved for 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.

Supported Standards

Compatible with the latest AHDI specification.
Compatible with the latest XHDI standard 1.30, with support for all optional functions.
Compatible with the latest SCSI Driver standard 1.01 (including target interface) for accessing any peripheral (CD/DVD-ROM, CD/DVD/BD writer, streamer etc.) with third-party drivers.
Compatible with the SPC-4 (SCSI Primary Commands), SBC-3 (SCSI Block Commands), MMC-6 (SCSI Multi-Media Commands) and RBC (Reduced Block Commands) specifications, relevant for all modern mass storage devices.

Scope of Delivery