IDE & SCSI Drivers

Hard disk drivers

• AHDI : ATARI HARD DISK UTILITIES PACKAGE by N.Bales. (freeware)
• CBHD : hard disk driver (freeware)
• Cecile : hard disk driver (freeware)
• HD Driver : One of the best hard disk driver for the Atari (commercial)
• ICD PRO : ICD AdSCSI ST host adapter software by ICD, Inc.
• P.Putnik Partitioner - Diverse drivers, even ACSI by P.Putnik

CD-Rom drivers

• Metados : Extend GEMDOS to allow reading of CDROM from Atari (freeware)
• Betados : Updated version of Metados (freeware)
• SPIN! : MetaDOS-BOS drivers and a MiNT & MagiC XFS for CD-ROM file system. (freeware)
• Extendos suite : Excellent suite of software for DR-ROM & DVD from Anodyne Software (commercial). Visit the official Anodyne website for more information.

Performance Test

• Atari ST hard disk performance tester by P. Putnik
• XferRate v1.1 Measures hard disk data transfer rate. Freeware from Anodyne.
• CDBench v1.2 Measures CD drive performance. Freeware from Anodyne.
• Howfast v1.0 a harddisk performance tester.

Hard disk checkers

• Diamond Edge by Anodyne Software is the premier hard disk optimisation and repair tool.
• Check HD is a old hard disk checker.
• Z'Organizer 2.01 Disk and file utils

Other readings

• Some information on how ACSI, SCSI and IDE works in the Atari
• Atari ST and hard disks A general article on hard disk by our AF hardware expert.
• Excellent resource on Atari Hard disk system by Infocoach (Jean Louis-Guérin)

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