January 28th, 2012: HDDRIVER 8.43 is available.

This is a free update for users of HDDRIVER 8.3 and 8.4, who can request it by email.

Changes in HDDRIVER 8.43:

• The number of reserved partitions for removable media can be set to 0. This can be useful for devices with several logical units (LUNs), in particular for SCSI card readers with only one slot being used.

November 26th, 2011: HDDRIVER 8.42 is available.

Changes in HDDRIVER 8.42:

• Fixed a problem with booting from some IDE devices. This problem only affected HDDRIVER 8.41, but not HDDRIVER 8.40.

October 23rd, 2011: HDDRIVER 8.41 is available.

Changes in HDDRIVER 8.41:

• The device check reports if for an Atari compatible bus (0-2) no external SCSI driver is available. In this case one of the SCSI drivers integrated in HDDRUTIL is used instead.
• The setting "Unlock after Reset" was moved to "Removable Media".

May 16th, 2011: HDDRIVER 8.40 is available.

Changes in HDDRIVER 8.40:

• HDDRUTIL-specific settings can be configured in a new dialog window.
• TOS/Windows compatible media can now contain more than one partition. Note, however, that Windows has the basic restriction of not supporting more than one partition on drives it considers removable.
• When creating Windows compatible media the creation of primary and logical partitions and thus the drive order under Windows can be influenced.
• HDDRIVER can now boot from non-byteswapped TOS/Windows compatible media without pressing any key.
• HDDRIVER and HDDRUTIL support 8 SCSI sub-units (LUNs) per drive.

For HDDRIVER 8.4 an updated demo version is available.

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The most important new features since HDDRIVER 8.2

• HDDRUTIL-specific settings can be configured in a new dialog window.
• TOS/Windows compatible media can now contain more than one partition. Note, however, that Windows has the basic restriction of not supporting more than one partition on drives it considers removable.
• When creating Windows compatible media the creation of primary and logical partitions and thus the drive order under Windows can be influenced.
• HDDRIVER can boot from non-byteswapped TOS/Windows compatible media.
• HDDRIVER and HDDRUTIL support 8 SCSI sub-units (LUNs) per drive.
• HDDRUTIL supports the complete and partial copying of hard disk drives.
• HDDRUTIL can save complete hard disk or partition contents as image files and can load hard disk or partition contents from image files.
• Improvements regarding the support of emulation environments.

The most important new features of HDDRIVER 8.2 compared with HDDRIVER 7

• HDDRIVER and all its tools now run on any platform that provides a SCSI driver.
• Support for IDE and SATA (via adapter) drives with a capacity of up to 2048 GiB (2 TiB).
• Improved support of CF and SD adapters and byteswapped drives.
• AUTOPARK supports parking and ejecting media for the drives A: and B:, provided that they are managed by HDDRIVER.
• HDDRUTIL provides for activating and de-activating partitions.
• Write-protection for the drives A: and B:, in case they are managed by HDDRIVER.
• HDDRIVER and HDDRUTIL check the user privileges under MiNT.
• HDDRCONF.CPX supports bus rescan and provides more detailed error information.
• Improved compatibility with the Afterburner's Fast-RAM.
• DVD-RAM drives are supported. For Atari ST and ST^E an ICD compatible host adapter is required.
• For ZIP and JAZ drives Auto-Sleep and for ZIP drives additionally Auto-Park can be configured.
• The SCSI driver supports ATAPI peripherals and emulates the most important SCSI-3 commands for IDE drives.
• HDDRUTIL can create media that are both TOS and Windows compatible. Windows and TOS can use these media without any additional software.
• Cache settings can be configured for ATAPI devices.
• With MiNT Linux partitions can be accessed.
• During the sector test HDDRUTIL displays information about the last error.
• Complete implementation of SCSI target routines for SCSI-3 compatible processor devices (TT/Falcon only).
• Creation of TOS and Windows compatible FAT32 partitions with HDDRUTIL. On the Atari MagiC or MiNT are required to access these partitions.
• Extensions with respect to the SCSI target interface.
• Improvements in the usage of the Milan's SCSI driver by HDDRIVER.
• The ID check now works for any bus for which a SCSI driver is available. Additionally the complete bus names are displayed.