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The following files should be in this package:
BOOTLOAD.COM The BOOTLOAD program
BOOTLOAD.DOC Documentation file for BOOTLOAD
FIXFAT.EXE The FIXFAT program
FIXFAT.DOC Documentation file for FIXFAT
HDTEST.EXE The HDTEST program
HDCHEK.EXE The HDCHEK program
HDTEST.DOC Documentation file for HDTEST/HDCHEK
HDTESTDD.BIN Device driver for use with SS or DM partitions
MAKETXT.EXE DOC file processor (see below)
README.1ST This file
The HDTEST.DOC, BOOTLOAD.DOC, and FIXFAT.DOC files are formatted to be printed
out on a (otherwise "dumb") printer which is capable of underlining by doing a
<CR> without a <LF> and overtyping - almost all modern printers can do (or
simulate) this. If you want to view the files in an editor and/or TYPE them to
the console, you will need to remove the underlining. To do this, simply give
the command "MAKETXT fname" (without the quotes, of course), replacing "fname"
with the name of the file you wish to convert. MAKETXT will read the fname.DOC
file (which it expects to find in the current directory) and write a second
file called fname.TXT, which can be edited or TYPEd without difficulty.
Users of versions of HDTEST prior to V5.35a should see the "CHANGES FROM
PREVIOUS VERSIONS" section of the documentation.
Versions of HDTEST between (and including) the Shareware V5.35 and V5.39
contained two significant, though non-destructive, bugs in the code which
implemented "incremental" disk testing. In summary:
1) The in-memory map of tested clusters was not correctly initialized to zero
(when not read from the disk) potentially resulting in untested clusters being
"missed" during testing. It appears that this got by myself, my beta-testers,
and a large number of users because HDTEST was generally run on a "clean"
(freshly rebooted) system. Under these special circumstances, memory is
already zero-filled, and the map would not have needed initializing.
2) An existing disk map of tested clusters (HDTESTED.MP0) was not deleted
after a _complete_ run of HDTEST. This appears to have resulted from a "minor"
change in the code made after the completion of formal beta-testing.
These bugs have been fixed in the current Shareware (V5.35a) and Registered
(V5.40) versions of HDTEST.