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Introduction............................................................................................................................... 3
Features ................................................................................................................................. 3
New Features/Bug Fixes in 2.1 .............................................................................................. 3
System Requirements ............................................................................................................ 4
Starting From Scratch .............................................................................................................. 5
Selecting a Hard Drive ........................................................................................................... 5
Setting Up The Hardware ....................................................................................................... 5
Powering Up The System....................................................................................................... 6
Setting Up Your System ......................................................................................................... 6
Please Backup First! .............................................................................................................. 7
Booting from the Distribution Disk .......................................................................................... 7
Formatting the SCSI Hard Drives ........................................................................................... 7
Formatting the IDE Hard Drives ............................................................................................. 7
Copying Files.......................................................................................................................... 7
Advanced Customization......................................................................................................... 8
Choosing the Right Driver ...................................................................................................... 8
“Floppy-Less” Booting with HDB-DOS ................................................................................... 8
RBSuper Features .................................................................................................................... 9
Split Driver Architecture.......................................................................................................... 9
Sector Deblocking .................................................................................................................. 9
Smart Caching........................................................................................................................ 9
Full IDE Support ................................................................................................................... 10
Turbo Mode (SCSI only)....................................................................................................... 10
Automatic Drive Size Query ................................................................................................. 10
Write Verification .................................................................................................................. 11
Clustering ............................................................................................................................. 11
Partitioning ........................................................................................................................... 11
HDB-DOS Virtual Disk Support ............................................................................................ 12
Writing a Low-Level Driver .................................................................................................... 13
Entry Points .......................................................................................................................... 13
ll_init ................................................................................................................................. 13
ll_term............................................................................................................................... 14
ll_read .............................................................................................................................. 14
ll_write .............................................................................................................................. 14
ll_getstat/ll_setstat............................................................................................................ 14
Device Descriptor ................................................................................................................. 14
Direct Hardware Access with SS.DCmd ............................................................................... 15
Included Utilities ..................................................................................................................... 16
Technical Support .................................................................................................................. 18
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