Amiga Format 123/af123a.adf/af123a1.lzx/MyFormat/History.txt

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MyFormat history.

1.0   --  Initial release.

1.01  --  Fixed minor bug in setting of Use_Filesystem gadget during
          startup and selection of drive to format.  Also recompiled
          with SAS/C v6.55

1.02  --  Changed operation of Use_Filesystem gadget so that it is
          disabled on disks not using the standard Amiga Filesystem.
          e.g.  PC formatted disks, PFS formatted disks, etc.

1.03  --  Changed arrangement of gadgets and how MyFormat responds to
          Workbench menu originated formats.

1.04  --  OOPS!  Bug creeped in during rearrangement of gadgets in
          1.03 regarding Auto Start.  Fixed so that Auto Start
          defaults to whole disk formatting.

1.05  --  Altered Auto Start code to notify user at end of format
          with a DisplayBeep() call.

1.06  --  Changed disk change sensing method to recognize all
          diskchanges.  This change was needed because the A3000's
          scsi.device didn't recognize the command I originally
          used for sensing disk changes.  This should now work with
          all removable media drives.  It works fine with my Iomega
          Zip drive on the A3000 scsi.device as unit 5.

1.07  --  Found a bug in the disk type and size sensing code for
          non-Amiga formatted disks.  This mainly affected disks
          greater than 50 MB (the OFS size limit).  Now works.  Also
          has been recompiled with SAS/C 6.56.  Also, this is first
          version to be uploaded to Aminet.

1.08  --  Fix minor bug in size info calulations which caused some
          really weird size info to be placed in the size gadget.
          Bug did not affect formatting the disk, just the size
          reported in the window.  Thanks to Jon Peterson for help
          in tracking this down.

1.09ß --  Internal test versions during BadBlock marking development.
thru      Never released, because they failed miserably.
1.12ß

1.13ß --  Now includes Bad Block marking for FFS/OFS formatted
thru      partitions.  This can be set to either mark sectors or
1.15ß     whole tracks as used in the bitmap.  Added warning
          messages for bad sectors on the RootBlock track and/or
          track 0.  Beta versions, never released.

1.16  --  v1.15ß passed testing, and is now released to Aminet
          after re-compiling.

1.17  --  The new warning messages were too long for screens less
          than 800 pixels wide.  Re-formatted the text.

1.18  --  An elusive bug, which I never saw, was discovered by
          Carsten Sorensen in the GUI layout code.  I had
          mistakenly, way back in v1.03, set the topedge of some
          gadgets to a set value, rather than adjusting them
          according to the screen's font.  This has now been fixed.
          Also turned the optimizer back on in SAS/C with size
          optimization.  This cut the size of the code by a little
          more than 1K over no optimization for v1.18.  Might even
          be a little faster as well.

1.19  --  Well, I did find another stupid bug on my part.  I had
          created the BadBlocks type gadget with some bad info in
          the list it used for defining the available settings.
          Caused some problems with MCP's cycle-to-menu option
          (caused lockups).  I'm surprised this didn't show up until
          now.  Also removed a call that would force the window to
          the front whenever Auto Start mode is enabled.  I will be
          making some changes in MyFormat 2.0 to make this optional,
          since it is rather annoying to have the Workbench screen
          pop to the front while trying to read email on Thor's
          own screen.

1.20  --  Found another rather obscure bug, though I don't think
          it ever affected anything.  I had mistakenly set the
          dostype for the disk initialization to always be an Amiga
          type, as in FFS.  I had thought this might be why the
          CrossDOS formatting of larger disks didn't work, but it
          didn't change anything on formatting my Zip drive to PC
          format.  See the note above about bugs and Consultron for
          more info.  Now compiled with SAS/C 6.58.
Extra note on 1.20:
          This bugfix seems to have fixed the CrossMAC formatting
          problem.  If anyone still has problems with this, let me
          know.  Also included a new version of readdevice with
          this re-upload.  Readdevice was causing some Enforcer
          hits when string pointers in the device entry are not
          set.  Now it includes some more pointer checks for those
          entries and will accept device names with or without
          the ':'.

1.21  --  Somehow, I missed putting in a bad sector counter back
          during the development of the bad sector code.  There
          now is a counter added that will display the number of
          bad sectors found instead of the 'Short delay' message.
          Also, I decided there was no point to updating the
          BitMapBlocks if no bad sectors were found, so MyFormat
          now checks the bad block counter before writing any
          of the BitMapBlocks.

1.22  --  Added volume name numbering to the Auto Start function.
          MyFormat now adds an underline and a three digit number
          to the end of the volume name after the first Auto Start
          formatted disk is complete.  At the end of each Auto
          Start format, the number will be incremented.  Currently,
          this will wrap around to '000' after it gets to '999'.

1.23  --  Altered size readout code again.  Will now only figure
          in the SectorsPerBlock setting for FFS filesystems on
          Kick 40+ systems.  Since none of the other filesystems
          I've seen seem to properly support this setting, this
          hack was necessary.  Note: the majority of misconfigured
          partitions that this shows up on seems to be caused by
          using HDToolBox to set up the partition for filesystem
          blocksizes other than 512 bytes.  HDToolBox from OS3.1
          sets SectorsPerBlock to something other than 1, even
          though all the RDB spec info I have says SectorsPerBlock
          MUST be set to 1.  The NDUK for OS3.1 (the last one put
          out by Commodore) does NOT say anything about this,
          other than FastFileSystem got SectorsPerBlock support
          added in FFS v40.1.  If anyone has any newer info on
          this, please let me know.

1.24  --  Made minor change to FormatFromWB routine.  Now the Drives
          gadget will move the scroll to show the drive selected
          from the Workbench to be formatted.  Thanks to
          Michael Taylor for pointing this out.

1.25  --  Well, I got a new IOBlix serial card and found an unusual
          compatibility problem with MyFormat.  The way the PARxx:
          and SERxx: entries get set up was fooling my rather simple
          drive filter into thinking they were real drives.  The
          subsequent queries for getting disk change counts and such
          were causing crashes.  I added a filter to the device
          finder routine which lets it start up ok now on my system.
          Anyone else who has an IOBlix try this out and let me know
          if it works ok for you.  Also, since the new filter
          routine made it simple to do, I added a filter entry for
          devices whose names start with 'CD'.  This effectively
          removes my CDROM from the list in MyFormat's window, since
          it's named 'CD0'.

1.26  --  Thanks to Martin Wolf for pointing out some problems in
          MyFormat's GUI related to VisualPrefs.  I learned something
          new, and have fixed the placement of the gadgets within the
          window.