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Do I lose any data when switching from another driver to
HDDRIVER?
No, all existing data remain unchanged when installing HDDRIVER. Drives
with partitions created by old versions of the ICD driver software, which used a non-standard partitioning scheme, require a special treament. In this case data have to be
converted with software that is included in the HDDRIVER distribution. No data
are lost by this operation.
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What is the maximum capacity of a hard disk drive connected to the Atari?
With HDDRIVER one can use drives with a capacity of up to 2 TiB (2048 GiB) with the TT and Falcon. With the ACSI/DMA bus of the ST/STE drives larger than one GiB can only be used with their full capacity with ICD compatible host adapters like the LINK96 or LINK97.
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What is the maximum size of a standard partition or a boot partition?
The maximum partition size depends on the version of TOS and on the
filesystem. TOS 1.0x supports partitions of up to 256 MiB, TOS 1.6x/2.0x/3.0x of up to 512 MiB, TOS 4.0x of up to 1 GiB. These sizes are also valid for bootable partitions and TOS/Windows compatible partitions created with HDDRUTIL. MiNT and MagiC support filesystems that do not have any relevant restriction on their size.
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What are the capabilities of HDDRIVER with respect to
exchanging data with other platforms?
With HDDRIVER data can be exchanged without any additional software
between the Atari and Windows PCs (Windowx XP and newer). Exchanging data with memory cards is particularly simple.
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How do I profit from the support of memory card adapters?
Memory card adapters, particularly for the IDE port, are cheap, and they provide for noiseless work without a hard disk drive. One can even boot from a CF or SD card. Naturally one can also read data like digital photos this way or conveniently exchange data with other platforms.
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Which SCSI drives can be connected to the Atari?
Any SCSI-2/3 drive with an 8 bit SCSI interface can be used.
Other drives (e. g Ultra Wide drives) require
an adapter that reduces the bus width from 16 to 8 bit. These
adapters are no special Atari equipment and are available in specialist
shops.
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HDDRIVER and HDDRUTIL do not detect a SCSI drive connected to the ST/STE.
ST and STE do not have a real SCSI bus but only Atari's proprietary ACSI/DMA
bus, which results in some restrictions. Some devices connected to this bus
can only be used with the LINK96 or LINK97 host adapters. Only these adapters have
a SCSI ID of their own (initiator identification). Additionally, when using other adapters it may
be necessary to switch off the drive's parity checking.
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HDDRIVER and HDDRUTIL do not detect a second IDE/ATAPI/SATA drive connected to the Falcon.
The Falcon's internal power supply is not always sufficient for a second drive or a SATA adapter. It may be required to use an external power supply.
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Each time when booting HDDRIVER (and HDDRUTIL as well) reports a different ID for my IDE/ATAPI drive.
IDE and ATAPI devices connected to the Atari should not be operated in the Cable Select mode, but should be explicitly jumpered either as master or slave drive.
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What are the limitations when booting from the IDE port?
During the boot process TOS can only load HDDRIVER from drives connected to the IDE port if these drives have been partitioned when they were connected to the Atari's IDE port. This is caused by the wiring of the Atari's IDE port not having the same byte order used by other platforms for IDE and SCSI.
The Suska board uses the same byte order as other platforms and does not have this limitation.
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TOS/Windows compatible media do not work with Windows.
The media may have been created with the wrong physical drive parameters. Adjusting these parameters when partitioning or enabling the "SDMS compatible" setting may help.
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Why does Windows only find one partition on my drive even though there are several?
This is a basic limitation of Windows: On drives Windows considers removable only a single partition is supported. With Windows several partitions per drive are only possible with fixed disk drives.
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Will HDDRIVER support new Atari compatible hardware?
HDDRIVER itself will most likely not support hardware interfaces not fully compatible with the interfaces of the ST, TT or
Falcon030. An exception is the second IDE port of the Hades, the Milan and the Suska-III-C board, which is directly supported by HDDRIVER. Nevertheless, provisions have been made for Atari clones with new interfaces: HDDRIVER can be used
with any interface for which a SCSI driver is available. Developers of
new interface hardware just have to provide a SCSI driver for their
hardware. This has already been successfully done for the Milan's
PCI SCSI bus. HDDRIVER itself includes SCSI drivers for Atari ACSI,
Atari SCSI, Atari/Milan IDE and Atari/Milan ATAPI.
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Is there anything to consider when using Cubase Audio?
Cubase Audio does not handle the Falcon's SCSI bus compliant to the standard, which can lead to problems with HDDRIVER 8. If the CAFFIX software, which is included in the HDDRIVER distribution, cannot put things right and because there are no versions of Cubase where this problem has been fixed, the only work-around is using the last version 7.93 of the HDDRIVER 7 series. This version does not support as many peripherals as HDDRIVER 8 but is known to work with Cubase. Most functions of HDDRUTIL 8 can also be used with HDDRIVER 7.93, by the way.
Users of HDDRIVER 8 can request HDDRIVER 7.93 for free by e-mail.