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HDDRIVER news are offered as RSS and Atom feeds. In addition the Hddriver News app for Android automatically notifies about news. Information on changes in previous releases are provided in the overview of changes and in the HDDRIVER forum.

August 19, 2024: GUID partition tables (GPT)

Since Linux kernel version 6.0 exchanging data between Linux and TOS with TOS/Windows compatible partitions has become quite inconvenient. The solution to this and other problems is a platform-independent UEFI GUID partition table (GPT), which also offers benefits for the Atari. GPTs have been standard on the Mac for a long time and have been supported by most platforms for almost 20 years.
HDDRUTIL will support creating a GPT in a future update for HDDRIVER 12, which is currently in the test phase.

August 11, 2024: HDDRIVER 12.06 is available
The main changes in this version
July 24, 2024: DISKUS 3.99.5 is available

There is an updated version of the DISKUS mass storage tool. DISKUS (German only) is a powerful tool for maintaining mass storage devices (error analysis, data recovery, sector editor and much more).

July 21, 2024: DaynaPort workaround for MegaSTE, new approach

The internal host adapter of the MegaSTE cannot use the DaynaPort emulation of SCSI2Pi, PiSCSI or BlueSCSI together with a bootable emulated hard drive: The DaynaPort drivers expect the DaynaPort uses LUN 0, but LUN 0 is required for a bootable drive. The authors of these drivers (both still active developers for the Atari) are aware of this problem. Only a driver update can cleanly resolve it.
The initial makeshift from February, a modified HDDRIVER, I have not released because of the maintenance overhead. Instead there is a beta version of a program for the AUTO folder now, which maps ACSI ID 6 to LUN 6 of ACSI device 0. That way the emulated DaynaPort can use ID 0 LUN 6, but the drivers see the device as ID 6 LUN 0.
Users of HDDRIVER 12 who would like to test this beta version please send me an email.

July 6, 2024: SCSI2Pi 3.4 is available

SCSI2Pi improves the performance of the PiSCSI/RaSCSI board and extends the functionality. For the installation/update highly optimized, compact binary packages are available, i.e. in contrast to PiSCSI no time-consuming compilation is required. With the SCSI2Pi client tools the Atari can control SCSI2Pi via the SCSI or ACSI bus. In addition, the tools support SCSI2Pi as a realtime clock and as a network printer for the Atari.

June 21, 2024: HDDRIVER 12.05 is available
The main changes since HDDRIVER 11