exxos's Atari, Amiga & retro forum

These are the main changes in HDDRIVER 12.72:

- HDDRIVER: On the Falcon, an undocumented behavior of the DMA chip limits the number of bytes that can be transferred via SCSI/DMA in one go to just under 8 MiB. This value is also used by AHDI. The accelerated transfer mode for Ataris without Alternate-RAM has been adjusted accordingly.
- HDDRUTIL: The display of invalid partition data with "Check Boot Sector" has been improved.
- HDDRUTIL: Calling "Locate HDDRIVER" before an update installation could result in a corrupted HDDRIVER.SYS file. "Locate HDDRIVER" before an update is needless, because just like with the initial installation, double-clicking the boot drive is sufficient. The manual explains when to use "Locate HDDRIVER

peters wrote: 26 Sep 2025 16:24 I'm never quite clear on when/why to use Locate HdDriver and don't do updates often enough to remember.