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Short: V0.3 SCSI/IDE Query, Command & Diagnostic Tool (MUI)
Author: ian.chapman@amiga-hardware.com (Ian Chapman)
Uploader: ian.chapman@amiga-hardware.com
Version: 0.3
Type: disk/misc
Requires: MUI, Betterstring
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Q-Device! v0.3
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INTRODUCTION
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Q-Device! is a tool for querying, controlling and performing diagnostic
operations on SCSI and IDE devices. Although it was primarily written for SCSI
devices, many of the options also work with IDE devices, depending on their
driver implementation. Q-Device! can provide you with quite a wealth of
information about your devices.
Features
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* Graphical User Interface (MUI)
* Device Probing
* Device Inquiry including:
Product, Vendor, Revision, Type, RMB Info, ISO, ECMA and ANSI versions, AENC,
TrmIOP, Relative Addressing, Bus Width, Synchronous, Linked, Command Queuing
and Reset Type
* Device Capacity including:
Number of Blocks, Block Size, True Capacity and Vendor Capacity
* Media Ejecting
* Media Inserting
* Device Power Down
* Device Power Up
* Device Media Locking
* Device Media Unlocking
* Test for unit readiness
* Read CD Table of Cotents including:
Starting Track, Ending Track, Track Type, Track Copyright, Audio Channels,
Audio Emphasis
* Diagnostic Tests: Simple 1 & 2, Deep 1 & 2
* Parameter Pages Including: Disconnection & Reconnection, Interface Mode,
Control Mode, Error Recovery, Formatting, Rigid Disk Geometry,
Flexible Disk Geometry, Cache, Supported Media, Notch, CD-ROM Audio and
Verify Error Recovery
* Firmware Logs Including: Write Errors, Read Errors, Reverse Read Errors,
Verify Errors and Non-Medium Errors
HISTORY
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Version 0.3
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ADDED: The following device parameter pages:-
CD-ROM Parameters (for CDROM Devices)
Verify Error Recovery (for CD-ROM Devices)
Sequential Device Parameters (for Sequential Devices)
Error Recovery (for Sequential Devices).
Cache (for CDROM Devices and Optical Devices)
ADDED: Preferences window
ADDED: Probe Devices Preference, you can choose the range of device units the
probe option will scan. Reverse scanning is also supported
ADDED: Menus which basically mirror the query, command and diagnostic buttons.
ADDED: Q-Device can now read the firmware logs. The following are supported:-
Scan Firmware Logs
Write Error Log
Read Error Log
Reverse Read Error Log
Verify Error Log
Non Medium Error Log
FIXED: Accidentally passing the simple test SCSI opcode when doing deep tests.
Harmless, it just meant that deep mode was also performing simple tests
:-)
FIXED: Hopefully anyway, a problem with bad drivers or devices not supporting
REQUEST SENSE causing a recursive loop of command not supported.
CHANGED: Default probe is now 0 - 15 instead of 0 - 7
REMOVED: Request sense button. This was particularly useless because Q-Device
automatically returns the sense data (error codes) upon a command
failure.
REMOVED: Information page sizes. Previously Q-Device reported the size of each
information page returned from the Device Parameters button. Page
sizes are only really of interest to myself for writing the page
parsing routines so I've removed them.
Version 0.2
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ADDED: Q-Device can now instruct devices to perform a self diagnostic test.
Four diagnostic tests are supported.
ADDED: Q-Device can now query many of the device parameter pages. The supported
pages are: Disconnection & Reconnection, Interface Mode, Control Mode,
Error Recovery, Formatting, Rigid Disk Geometry, Flexible Disk Geometry,
Cache, Supported Media, Notch, and CD-ROM Audio, Verify Error Recovery
ADDED: Double clicking an appropriate entry in the listview will perform a
full inquiry on that device and automatically add the device and unit
number to the text-boxes.
ADDED: Popup list for selecting the device driver.
ADDED: Popup list for selecting the device unit.
CHANGED: Unit text box is now limited to numeric characters up to 999.
OPTIMISED: The listview now requires less memory.
Version 0.1
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Initial Release