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ATA3.driver
Program History
ver.5.6 (14 Apr 2000)
- small improvement in detecting ATAPI devices,
ver.5.5 (13 Mar 2000)
- new, faster procedures for detecting all attached EIDE/ATAPI devices,
ver.5.4 (28 Feb 2000)
- support for HDD > 32 GB added,
- procedures for simultaneous work of two devices on two different
ribbons improved,
ver.5.3 (12 Feb 2000)
- the internal version,
- support for HDD up to 67.6 GB in SPLIT mode,
- support for HDD up to 2199.0 GB in NOSPLIT mode,
ver.5.2 (25 Jan 2000)
- support for ZIP 250MB ATAPI added,
- change in FastATAPrefs for full compatibility with the newest HDToolBox
ver. 44.22 (from OS3.5 update),
- the current AllegroCDFS version is 3.0,
ver.5.1 (29 Dec 99)
- ATA3.driver switches drives to the quickest mode possible without
waiting for the end of partitions' validation,
ver.5.0 (07 Dec 99)
- the ATA3.driver RESIDENT argument added,
- the new SPLIT/NO SPLIT HDD status detection in ATA3Prefs (for full
compatibility with the new HDD geometry provided by HDToolBOX from OS3.5),
ver.4.9 (26 Nov 99)
- improvement in procedure used during burning CD,
- the current AllegroCDFS version is 2.5,
ver.4.8 (21 Nov 99)
- new procedure for detecting attached devices,
- the current AllegroCDFS version is 2.3,
ver.4.7 (11 Oct 99)
- additional infos in ATA3Prefs,
ver.4.6 (05 Oct 99)
- NSD support added,
- the current AllegroCDFS version is 2.0,
ver.4.5 (18 Sep 99)
- small improvement in ATA3Prefs program,
- the current AllegroCDFS version is 1.9,
ver.4.4 (30 Aug 99)
- info in ATA3Prefs about HDD > 4GB preparation (SPLIT or TD64),
- the current AllegroCDFS version is 1.7,
ver.4.3 (20 Aug 99)
- small improvement in prefs code,
ver.4.2 (18 Aug 99)
- small improvement in driver code,
ver.4.1 (15 Aug 99)
- corrected bug in independent work of two ports (in ver.4.0),
ver.4.0 (09 Aug 99)
- option for choosing TD64 commands or splitting HDD added,
ver.3.14 (19 Jul 99)
- small improvement in driver code,
ver.3.13 (10 Jul 99)
- new installation script for FastATA'99 and AllegroCDFS,
- new procedures for detecting old PIONEER CD-ROMs,
- emulation of PLAY AUDIO TRACK/INDEX corrected,
ver.3.12 (04 Jul 99)
- test version (not in distribution),
ver.3.11 (20 Jun 99)
- change in ATAPI device procedure,
ver.3.10 (01 Apr 99)
- special edition - only for the Cover CD in the Polish Amiga Magazine,
ver.3.9 (19 Mar 99)
- ATA3.driver set as RESIDENT replaces scsi.device, enables using
stand-alone ATAPI devices (e.g. CD-ROM) (without any HDD attached),
ver.3.8 (08 Mar 99)
- screen message during disk validation,
- read CDROM procedures changed for full compatibility with ShapeShifter,
- the ATA3.driver QUIET argument added,
- software reset for ATAPI drives during warm reset added,
ver.3.7 (19 Feb 99)
- changed procedures for recognising some HDDs > 9 GB,
- added early detection of write-protected LS-120 disks,
ver.3.6 (08 Feb 99)
- after many experiences with an ancient version of 68040 processor we
started to safely use the move16 instruction also for PPC cards
with oldest version of 68040/25 CPU (cards with defective status),
ver 3.5 (01 Feb 99)
- ATA3Prefs can also work without FastATA-2/EIDE Controller,
ver 3.4 (15 Jan 99)
- emulation added for SCSI command: PLAY AUDIO TRACK/INDEX,
- automatic loading of filesystem from second port HDDs added,
ver 3.3 (05 Jan 99)
- incompability with some CD-ROM file systems corrected
(incompability was only in version 3.2),
ver 3.2 (28 Dec 98)
- acceleration of read and write from HDD and CD-ROM drives,
- improvement in PPC test in ATA3Prefs (ver. 3.3),
ver 3.1 (16 Dec 98)
- STANDBY function for hard disk added,
- write procedure for very very old hard disks improved,
ver.3.0 (07 Nov 98)
- new PIO4 NF modes added, works only with the fastest hard disks,
ver.2.10 (05 Nov 98)
- prepared for new hardware identification code,
ver.2.9 (26 Oct 98)
- procedures for simultaneous work of two ATA devices on two different
ribbons corrected,
ver.2.8 (13 Oct 98)
- procedures for simultaneous work of two ATAPI devices on two different
ribbons corrected,
ver.2.7 (21 Sep 98)
- procedures for fast CD-ROM (x32, x36, x40) changed due to the small bug
in the hardware of some 68030 cards,
- information about Copyright restrictions added,
- new ATA3Prefs ver.2.6 added,
ver.2.6 (09 Sep 98)
- improved procedure for CD-ROM detection,
- new ata3Prefs ver.2.4 added,
ver.2.5 (05 Sep 98)
- ATA3prefs (ver.2.2) with PPC card test added due to the hardware bug in
a few singular PPC cards: when bug is detected, controller starts
working in a special rescue mode,
- bug corrected (since ver.2.0) in disk validation waiting procedure,
ver.2.4 (19 Aug 98)
- ATA3.driver non-resident by default,
ver.2.3 (09 Aug 98)
- improved identification procedures for ATAPI devices to be seen as SCSI-2,
ver.2.2 (13 Jul 98)
- changed procedures for sending commands to CD-ROM drives for some cards
with 68030,
ver.2.1 (09 Jul 98)
- disk and CD-ROM drive identification procedures changed
to obtain full compatibility with the ATAPI standard (no soft reset
for CD-ROM drives),
- waiting time for CD-ROM drives independent of computer's operation speed,
ver.2.0 (29 Jun 98)
- ATA3.driver resident by default, possible booting from ZIP and LS drives,
- port service fully independent for controllers with s/n higher
than 0803795,
- program checksum autoverification before running,
ver.1.6 (16 Jun 98)
- freeing scsi.device before switching operation modes abandoned,
- waiting for possible disk validation before switching operation
modes retained,
- CD-ROM detection improved,
- introduced protection against wrong writing to HDD if
ATA3.driver cannot detect the connected CD-ROM,
- soft reset included in the ATAPI standard devices,
ver.1.5 (10 Jun 98)
- abandoned transfer procedures to and from an odd address in buffer,
- sub-programs from KS3.0 and KS3.1 used in the procedure for
adding partitions (KS < 3.0 not supported),
ver.1.4 (04 Jun 98)
- waiting for freeing scsi.device before switching operation modes added,
ver.1.3 (01 Jun 98)
- ZIP and LS drive mode added,
ver.1.2 (15 May 98)
- emulation added for 2 SCSI commands (Mode Select, Mode Sense) necessary
for CDR recorders,
ver.1.1 (29 Apr 98)
- the very first version.