Technical data

3.4 SCSI

The IDs of your respective controllers can be determined by means of the program PCISniffer.

At http://www.miray.de/download/sat.pcisniffer.html you can download it for free from the

Miray homepage. For the regarding PCI SCSI controller, the values displayed by PCISniffer for

the fields Vendor ID and Device ID have to match the values specified above for your SCSI

controller.

3.5 USB

If your edition of HDShredder also supports USB storage media, the following chapters contain

important information regarding utilization and compatibility of USB storage media and control-

lers.

Note: Please take care to connect USB devices already before starting HDShredder (5.1

Preliminary steps) and if possible directly to the PC resp. to the USB controller (3.5.3 Hubs).

3.5.1 Mass-Storage-Class

USB storage media that is intended to be used with HDShredder has to support the USB-Mass-

Storage-Class protocol. This is an official standard, which is supported by almost all current USB

sticks, USB card readers, USB hard disks etc. If you are not sure if a certain USB storage medium

is supported by HDShredder, you can check this out easily and for free in advance by means

of the Free Edition (3.2.1 Compatibility test).

3.5.2 UHCI, OHCI and EHCI

Regarding USB devices, it is crucial that HDShredder supports the respective USB controller.

HDShredder is capable of all three common USB standards, UHCI and OHCI for USB 1.0/1.1 as

well as EHCI for USB 2.0. In the area of standard PCs, all current USB controllers, onboard con -

trollers as well as adapter cards, offer one of these three interface standards. In case you are

not sure though whether your USB controller is supported by HDShredder, you can check this

out easily and for free in advance by means of the Free Edition (3.2.1 Compatibility test).

3.5.3 Hubs

USB devices usually may also be connected via a USB hub. Nevertheless, for achieving the

highest possible transfer rate, it is recommended to rather connect them directly to the PC

resp. to the USB controller.

3.6 Firewire (IEEE1394)

If your edition of HDShredder supports Firewire, you can connect arbitrary Firewire drives or

card readers. Connected devices must support the Serial-Bus-Protocol (SBP) in order to be re-

cognized and operated correctly by HDShredder.

Note: Please take care to connect Firewire devices already before starting HDShredder

(5.1 Preliminary steps) and if possible directly to the PC resp. to the Firewire controller.