Technical information

4.6 ICD AdSCSI Pro 6.5.5 Driver Package

This section presents the ICD AdSCSI Pro 6.5.5 hard disk package. This package used to be a

commercial package but is now widely available as an abandon-ware. You can find it here.

4.6.1 Partitioning a drive

In order to use the ICD utilities the ICD hard disk driver has to be loaded first. If you boot your Atari

with the ICD distribution diskette inserted in the floppy drive, the driver should load automatically as a

copy of the ICDBOOT.PRG is placed in the AUTO folder. Otherwise

you will have to manually execute the ICDBOOT.PRG. The driver

displays a welcome screen as well as information about all the

devices connected and eventually the already existing partitions on

the drive.

You should now run the ICDFMT.PRG. After displaying a welcome

screen the program will scan for hard drives and controllers. All the

units found will be listed in a form. Select the Drive you want to

partition (for example a specific SD Card inserted in an UltraSatan

drive) and click CONTINUE.

You will be brought to the main menu that displays some information, about the hard disk selected, on

the left side and some user modifiable parameters on the right side.

Usually the only parameter you need to modify is

the Verify Passes (it is set to 1 initially). This

parameter indicates the number of times each

sector will be checked after partitioning to see if it

is a bad sector.

Click Verify Passes: This will bring a new form.

Set the Passes parameter to 0, to bypass the

sectors verification, and then click OK.

 If you do not set the Verify Passes parameter

to 0 the partition operation will check all

sectors in all the partitions on the drive and

this can take a very long time on a large

drive.