January 10, 2010: The HDDRIVER forum is now open.

The official HDDRIVER forum extends the user support for HDDRIVER and provides first-hand information about news and features.

August 29, 2009: FAQ update and extension.

November 4, 2008: Free update to HDDRIVER 8.23 for registered users of HDDRIVER 8.2.

Changes in HDDRIVER 8.23:

• Fixed a bug related to partitioning with HDDRUTIL that could result in FATs of FAT32 partitions being one sector too small. It is recommended that users of MagiC recreate their FAT32 partitions. MiNT detects the problem automatically and reports an error. If nothing is reported the FAT size is correct.

June 8, 2008: Free update to HDDRIVER 8.22 for registered users of HDDRIVER 8.2.

Changes in HDDRIVER 8.22:

• Fixed a bug that prevented HDDRUTIL from correctly displaying the data of drives with many partitions.

August 26, 2007: Free update to HDDRIVER 8.21 for registered users of HDDRIVER 8.2.

Changes in HDDRIVER 8.21:

• Fixed address error (3 bombs) when calling the XHDI function XHInqDev2() on STs with MC68000.

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The most important new features of HDDRIVER 8.2

• Support for IDE drives with a capacity of up to 2048 GByte (2 TByte).
• Extended SCSI-3 emulation for IDE drives.
• Various improvements concerning HDDRUTIL.
• Improved support for CompactFlash adapters.
• Improved support of byte-swapped drives.

The most important new features of HDDRIVER 8.1

• 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.
• Improved compatibility with the Afterburner's Fast-RAM.

The most important new features of HDDRIVER 8.0

• DVD-RAM drives are supported. For Atari ST and ST^E an ICD compatible host adapter is required.
• Support for FAT32 partitions under MiNT and MagiC.
• Support for ATAPI LS-120 drives and ATAPI ZIP drives.
• 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 commands for IDE drives.
• HDDRUTIL can create media with a single partition that is both TOS and DOS compatible. DOS/Windows, Linux and TOS can use these media without any additional software.
• Cache settings can be configured for ATAPI devices.
• Support for IDE drives > 8 GByte.
• With MiNT Linux partitions can be accessed.
• Support for additional DOS compatible partition types.
• During the sector test HDDRUTIL displays information about the last SCSI error.
• Complete implementation of SCSI target routines for SCSI-3 compatible processor devices (TT/Falcon only).
• A lot of improvements with respect to the use of HDDRUTIL, HDDRCONF and ZIPCTRL under MagiCMac and MagiCPC.
• Creation of TOS and Windows compatible FAT32 partitions.
• Extensions with respect to the SCSI target interface.
• More detailed error information in HDDRCONF.CPX.
• Extensive optimisations and cleanup work. The result is HDDRIVER 8 being several KBytes smaller than HDDRIVER 7.9, even though it has more features. The same applies to HDDRUTIL.
• HDDRIVER and all its tools now run on any platform that provides a SCSI Driver. This includes MagiCMac and MagiCPC. Note: Under MagiCMac and MagiCPC only install the SCSI Driver, but not CBHD.
• 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.
• Support for additional SCSI messages for TT/Falcon SCSI, e. g. SAVE DATA POINTER, MODIFY DATA POINTER, RESTORE POINTERS, BUS DEVICE RESET.