Technical information
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4.4 HDDRIVER 9.02 Driver Package
This section presents a quick procedure to follow to use HDDRIVER 9.02 hard disk driver package on
CosmosEx or UltraSatan device. The HDDRIVER package is a commercial application that you can
buy from Uwe Seimet HERE. For detail information please refer to the provided documentation.
Many improvements and bug fixes has been included in V9.x. For UltraSatan and CosmosEx users
on ST machine the most important feature added (actually added on version 8.40+) is the support for
multiple TOS & Windows partition on compatible media. The configuration of the driver is also much
easier as it automatically detect if the drive support ICD extensions.
4.4.1 Partitioning a drive
In order to use the HDDRUTIL.APP utilities the HDDRIVER hard disk driver has to be loaded.
Normally this is done automatically if you boot from the HDDRIVER diskette as the HDDRIVER.PGR
program is located in the Auto folder. The driver displays a welcome screen and displays information
about all the connected devices and eventually already existing partitions.
HDDRUTIL.APP program displays two windows
with all known devices and partitions. The device
or partition to operate on can be selected from
these lists. The operations available for the
selected item are enabled in the main menu and
are also offered by a context menu, which is
displayed when selecting an item with the right
mouse button.
As we are starting with a DOS formatted SD card
on a CosmosEx device only one partition is shown
here.
Select the device that contains the media you
want to partition from the Devices Window and
from the Medium menu select the Partition
command.
The Partition form will popup. If the hard disk has already been partitioned you will
see the current values otherwise you will see some default values.
First you need to define the type of partition you want to create by clicking on the
Compatibility button in the partition window. This open the Compatibility Option
window. You have three choices: TOS only, Windows only, and TOS & Windows.
4.4.1.1 Creating a Windows only partition
If you want to create DOS/Window only partitions I recommend
that you use specific tools directly on the PC.
4.4.1.2 Creating a TOS only partition
Check the TOS checkbox and uncheck the Windows checkbox.
Select the TOS level of compatibility you want with the radio
button and click OK.
4.4.1.3 Creating a TOS & Windows Partition
The “TOS & Windows Combined” checkbox from previous version of HDDRIVER has been removed.
In order to create TOS & Windows compatible media simply check both the TOS and Windows
checkboxes. Select the TOS level of compatibility you want with one of the radio buttons. You
probably want to leave the two checkboxes in the Windows section uncheck, unless you know what
you are doing (refer to your documentation). Click OK this return you to the partition window.