News

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.

December 4, 2024: HDDRIVER 12.51 is available
The main changes in this version

Upgrading HDDRIVER 12.0x to HDDRIVER 12.5 is at no charge. There is also an updated demo version.

November 21, 2024: Streamer emulation for the Atari

With SCSI2Pi 4.0 there is now a streamer emulation for the PiSCSI board, which can also be used by Ataris with HDDRIVER and the Gemar streamer software. Due to a bug in Gemar it is important to run GEMARFIX (FIXES folder in the HDDRIVER full version distribution archive) before Gemar.

October 30, 2024: HDDRIVER 12.50 is available
The main changes since HDDRIVER 11
October 27, 2024: The SCSI Driver testsuite 3.00 is available
The main changes in SDRVTEST.TOS
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 DaynaPort driver update can cleanly resolve it.
For HDDRIVER 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.