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- HDFixer V1.10 - SHAREWARE (92/06/10)
- ========================================
-
-
- The author of this program is not responsible for any damages caused by using
- this program.
-
- HDFixer is a SHAREWARE program. After 10 days of testing please send in your
- SHAREWARE-Registration and US $5 (or DM 10). In this way you also support
- the SHAREWARE-System.
-
- HDFixer can be freely distributed (only the whole package) :
-
- The program : 'HDFixer' 11936 bytes
- The English documentation : 'HDFixer.DOC' 7059 bytes
- The German documentation : 'HDFixer.DOK' 10520 bytes
-
- provided the copyright notice is intact and NO commercial use is made with it
- without the written permission of the author. Send your SHAREWARE-Regis-
- tration, bug reports and suggestions to
-
- Address : Peter-Iver Edert
- Moorweg 32
- 2000 Schenefeld
- Germany
-
- What is it ?
- ============
-
- Using this program owners of an Amiga with a high density floppy disk drive
- are able to use the 1.71 MB sized HD disks under kickstart V37.175.
-
- Some of the newer A3000's have high density floppy drives.If you own an A3000
- just test it. Insert a HD disk perhaps borrowed from a PC user and format it.
- If the CLI command 'Info' shows a disk capacity of about 1759K you own a HD
- disk drive.
-
- In the 37.175 version of Kickstart HD disks are not completely supported in
- HD mode.
-
- A use of both disk systems DD and HD is not possible without getting write
- errors on the root-block. If you want to change the disk system you have to
- reboot the system.
-
- This program patches the system during every change of the disk system so
- that a normal use of both disk systems HD and DD is now possible under Kick-
- start V37.175.
-
- This is version 1.10 of HDFixer. This version is an update to version 1.00.
- (See AmigaLibDisk645) HDFixer V1.00 was a very early version supporting only
- one HD disk drive. It was written for those who wanted to use their HD disk
- drive not waiting a long time until they get a program which supports four
- HD disk drives being not able to buy a second one. Now here is a four HD disk
- drives supporting HDFixer.
-
- HDFixer V1.00 and V1.10 are 100% written in Assembler.
-
- How to use it :
- ===============
-
- Simply start HDFixer from the Workbench or from the CLI. You can also drag
- HDFixer in the 'WBStartup' directory of your boot disk/partition. Remember,
- the 'DONOTWAIT' tool type is already set.
-
- If there is a problem so that HDFixer cannot start e.g. if there is not
- enough memory HDFixer reports the problem in a requester.
-
- Starting HDFixer from the CLI the error message will be shown in the CLI
- window.
-
- Using the argument '?' a short info about HDFixer will be shown.
-
- HDFixer opens a title-only-window on the Workbench screen. In the title
- HDFixer reports its actions.
-
- Inserting a DD-Disk into drive DFx: HDFixer will report 'Fixing DFx: to DD'.
- Inserting a HD-Disk into drive DFx: HDFixer will report 'Fixing DFx: to HD'.
- HDFixer reports 'NDOSDisk in DFx:' when a NDOS-Disk e.g a MSDOS disk has been
- inserted in drive DFx: .
-
- If there is a problem with the disk or something else so that HDFixer is not
- able to fix into DD or HD mode HDFixer will report 'Can't fix DFx:'.
-
- Holding down the right mouse button if the HDFixer window is active a menu
- will be shown.
-
- The first menu is named 'Project'. There are nine items :
- =========================================================
-
- Fix DF0: : Selecting this item drive DF0: will be fixed manually if it
- exists.
- Fix DF1: : Drive DF1: will be fixed manually if it exists.
- Fix DF2: : as above
- Fix DF3: : as above
-
- Hide a sec. : Selecting this item the window of HDFixer hides for a moment.
- Why do we have this feature? To change the screen mode of the
- Workbench all windows except drawers must be closed. So if
- a requester as the following is displayed just select this
- item and press the 'Retry' gadget of the requester.The window
- will be hidden for a moment and after the screen mode had
- changed it will be opened again.
-
- +---------------------------------------+--+
- |Intuition preferences |FB|
- +---------------------------------------+--+
- | |
- | To reset Workbench screen, |
- | please close all windows, except drawers.|
- | |
- +------------------------------------------+
- |+--------+ +--------+|
- || Retry | | Cancel ||
- |+--------+ +--------+|
- +------------------------------------------+
-
- Load PREFS : Loads saved settings for the 'Options' menu questioning for
- the filen name. See the 'Options' menus.
- Save PREFS : Saves the settings from the 'Options' menu.
- Save PREFS As : Saves the settings from the 'Options' menu questioning for
- the filen name.
-
- About HDFixer : Some information about HDFixer is shown in a requester. Hit
- 'OK' to continue.
- Quit : This quits HDFixer.
-
-
- The second menu is named 'Options'. There are five items :
- ==========================================================
-
- Auto Fix DF0: : If this item is checked HDFixer will fix drive DF0: auto-
- matically when a disk has been inserted.
- Auto Fix DF1: : If this item is checked HDFixer will fix drive DF1: auto-
- matically when a disk has been inserted.
- Auto Fix DF2: : as above
- Auto Fix DF3: : as above
-
- Don't check the items of DD drives because fixind DD drives is not necessary.
-
- Dynamic buffer: If this item is not checked HDFixer allocates 22528 bytes of
- memory as a trackdisk buffer as long as terminated. But for
- DD's the buffer only needs to be half as large. So using
- dynamic buffering HDFixer allocates the needed memory
- dynamically when fixing a drive. When HDFixer fixed a drive
- the allocated memory will be released.
-
- To terminate HDFixer click on the close gadget of it's window or choose the
- 'Quit' item of the 'Project' menu.
-
- Note : You probably find some way to crash HDFixer that I have not tried yet
- ====== but I hope not. It can take up to 12 sec. until HDFixer had fixed four
- HD disks inserted at the same time.
-
- Thanks to : - Commodore-Amiga for making one of the best computers money
- ========= can buy
- - Fred Fish for his AmigaLibDisks
- - and to all those who send in their SHAREWARE-Registration, bug
- reports and suggestions !
-
- Peter-Iver Edert
-