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Drive Fitness Test (v3.61)
This download creates a self-booting DOS diskette to run the DFT utility. The Drive Fitness Test (DFT) provides a quick, reliable method to test SCSI and IDE hard disk drives, including Serial-ATA IDE drives. The Drive Fitness Test analyze function performs read tests without overwriting customer data. (However, Drive Fitness Test is bundled with some restoration utilities that will overwrite data.)
Changes include:
* Support for Travelstar Enhanced Availability models;
* Support for Microdrive 3K4 as a generic Hard Disk Drive;
* Sequential verify with 65K blocks for ATA 48-bit HDDs;
* Changed the SCSI ASPI error handling for Adaptec 320 card.
Note: Please see the user guide for help on using Drive Fitness Test and it's utilities.
Features:
Supports SCSI and IDE drives, including Serial-ATA drives
Note: Currently, the Drive Fitness Test does not support Microdrives, or Travelstar E drives.
Analyzes drive fitness
* Three modes of operation:
-- High confidence level Quick test (unmatched in the drive industry)
-- Full media scan
-- Exerciser
* Performs real-time analysis of you drive to quickly determine whether the drive has a problem.
* Identifies system problelms such as cables, temperature, etc.
* Automatically logs significant drive parameters to track potential impacts to the operation of the drive.
Restores drive fitness
Note: these utilities will overwrite customer data and allow repair of bad sectors.
* Erase Bootsector utility (use DFT Utility option: Erase Boot Sector)
* Low-level format utility (use DFT Utility option: Erase Disk)
* Filesystem-based Corrupted Sector Repair (use DFT Utility option: Corrupted Sector Repair)
Utilities
* Drive information
* S.M.A.R.T. Operations for IDE hard disk drives
Download Drive Fitness Test
Note: This download creates a self-booting DOS diskette to run the DFT utility. You can create the diskette under Windows or under Linux, using the binary version, but you must start your system with the DOS bootable diskette to run DFT. DFT can only be used with x86 based processors.
Feature Tool (v1.94)
The Feature Tool allows you to control some of the features of our Deskstar and Travelstar high performance ATA hard disk drives and supports 48-bit addressing, so it will work with the new large capacity drives. This version adds support for our latest drives.
* Support for Travelstar EA models
* Support for Deskstar 7K400
* Support for Promise and SIL 3112 SATA Controllers
The Feature Tool allows you to:
* Enable or disable the read-ahead or write cache.
* Change the drive Automatic Acoustic Management settings to the:
o Lowest acoustic emanation setting (Quiet Seek Mode), or
o Maximum performance level (Normal Seek Mode).
* Change the predefined capacity of the drive. This option can be used in situations where there is a BIOS limitation and the drive is not recognized. See the Users Guide for specific details.
* Switch the Ultra DMA mode
* Change Advanced Power Mode - allows you to change between the lowest power consumption and the highest power consumption (maximum performance level).
* Show Drive Temperature - shows the current drive temperature in Celsius and Fahrenheit.
Power Booster
This utility works with our Travelstar drives. Power Booster is a utility for laptops that gives users direct control over the Advanced Battery Life Extender power settings for our mobile disk drives. Power Booster allows any computer with an ATAPI 4 mobile disk drive and running Windows 95/98 to directly control advanced power management features of the drive. Advanced Battery Life Extender is an advanced power savings implementation and Power Booster is a user interface to it. Additional details are provided on the download page.
All the above are located right here @Hitachi
Freeware.
This download creates a self-booting DOS diskette to run the DFT utility. The Drive Fitness Test (DFT) provides a quick, reliable method to test SCSI and IDE hard disk drives, including Serial-ATA IDE drives. The Drive Fitness Test analyze function performs read tests without overwriting customer data. (However, Drive Fitness Test is bundled with some restoration utilities that will overwrite data.)
Changes include:
* Support for Travelstar Enhanced Availability models;
* Support for Microdrive 3K4 as a generic Hard Disk Drive;
* Sequential verify with 65K blocks for ATA 48-bit HDDs;
* Changed the SCSI ASPI error handling for Adaptec 320 card.
Note: Please see the user guide for help on using Drive Fitness Test and it's utilities.
Features:
Supports SCSI and IDE drives, including Serial-ATA drives
Note: Currently, the Drive Fitness Test does not support Microdrives, or Travelstar E drives.
Analyzes drive fitness
* Three modes of operation:
-- High confidence level Quick test (unmatched in the drive industry)
-- Full media scan
-- Exerciser
* Performs real-time analysis of you drive to quickly determine whether the drive has a problem.
* Identifies system problelms such as cables, temperature, etc.
* Automatically logs significant drive parameters to track potential impacts to the operation of the drive.
Restores drive fitness
Note: these utilities will overwrite customer data and allow repair of bad sectors.
* Erase Bootsector utility (use DFT Utility option: Erase Boot Sector)
* Low-level format utility (use DFT Utility option: Erase Disk)
* Filesystem-based Corrupted Sector Repair (use DFT Utility option: Corrupted Sector Repair)
Utilities
* Drive information
* S.M.A.R.T. Operations for IDE hard disk drives
Download Drive Fitness Test
Note: This download creates a self-booting DOS diskette to run the DFT utility. You can create the diskette under Windows or under Linux, using the binary version, but you must start your system with the DOS bootable diskette to run DFT. DFT can only be used with x86 based processors.
Feature Tool (v1.94)
The Feature Tool allows you to control some of the features of our Deskstar and Travelstar high performance ATA hard disk drives and supports 48-bit addressing, so it will work with the new large capacity drives. This version adds support for our latest drives.
* Support for Travelstar EA models
* Support for Deskstar 7K400
* Support for Promise and SIL 3112 SATA Controllers
The Feature Tool allows you to:
* Enable or disable the read-ahead or write cache.
* Change the drive Automatic Acoustic Management settings to the:
o Lowest acoustic emanation setting (Quiet Seek Mode), or
o Maximum performance level (Normal Seek Mode).
* Change the predefined capacity of the drive. This option can be used in situations where there is a BIOS limitation and the drive is not recognized. See the Users Guide for specific details.
* Switch the Ultra DMA mode
* Change Advanced Power Mode - allows you to change between the lowest power consumption and the highest power consumption (maximum performance level).
* Show Drive Temperature - shows the current drive temperature in Celsius and Fahrenheit.
Power Booster
This utility works with our Travelstar drives. Power Booster is a utility for laptops that gives users direct control over the Advanced Battery Life Extender power settings for our mobile disk drives. Power Booster allows any computer with an ATAPI 4 mobile disk drive and running Windows 95/98 to directly control advanced power management features of the drive. Advanced Battery Life Extender is an advanced power savings implementation and Power Booster is a user interface to it. Additional details are provided on the download page.
All the above are located right here @Hitachi
Freeware.