| Drive Fitness |
| Programs to help analyze, monitor, &
restore the health of your drives. |
| Drive
Fitness Test | OGT
Diagnostic Tool | SMART
Defender |
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| Drive Fitness Test (v4.08)
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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.)
V4.08 changes include:
- New Products support.
- Modified "Drive List" Display.
Note: Please see the user guide for
help on using Drive Fitness Test.
Additional Documentation:  Users
guide | White
paper | Data
sheet |
| Features: |
Supports SCSI and IDE
drives, including Serial-ATA drives
Note:
Currently, the Drive Fitness Test does not support
Microdrives, Travelstar 8E, Travelstar 10E, or Travelstar C4K
Series hard 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 your drive to quickly
determine whether the drive has a problem.
- Identifies system problems such as cables, temperature,
etc.
- Automatically logs significant drive parameters to track
potential impacts to the operation of the drive.
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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)
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| 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. |
| |
 Download Windows diskette creator (2,127
KB) - creates DOS bootable diskette
| Readme | Having
trouble creating the bootable diskette? |
Download
binary diskette image (non-Windows systems) (1,440
KB) - creates DOS bootable diskette |
Readme
|
|
Download
a CD image (2,716 KB) - create a bootable CD* for
Linux, Windows and other Operating Systems
* Requires CD-RW drive and software. |
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| OGT Diagnostic Tool |
|
The OGT diagnostic tool is a failure analysis tool for
Ultrastar 10K300, Ultrastar 15K73, and DK32XX products.
- Consumers and end users should use this tool instead of
DFT for Ultrastar 10K300, Ultrastar 15K73, and DK32XX drives
only.
- Performs diagnostic testing and failure analysis.
- Windows version only.
- The OGT will perform necessary tests to the drives and
can perform failure analysis automatically.
Additional documentation: Users
guide
|
Note: The latest ASPI driver must
be installed before you install or run the OGT tool. The
current ASPI driver revision can be found on the Adaptec
Web site:
Adaptec Web site
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Download
Windows Version (3,738KB) |
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| Ontrack Data Advisor™ |
| Data Advisor is a self-booting, easy to use,
diagnostic software to determine data access problems. It
analyzes file systems, boot sectors, Master Boot Record,
memory etc. It guides the user through traditional or new
Remote Data Recovery (RDR) services. |
 Go to
Ontrack download page *registration required |
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| SMART Defender |
| SMART Defender is no longer available for
download. Similar freeware and shareware programs are
available from various download Web sites. |
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| Installation tools |
| Utilities to help you install your new
drive |
| Disk
Manager | Feature
Tool |
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| Feature Tool (v2.01) |
|
This is a DOS-bootable tool for changing various ATA
features. 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. Changes
include:
- Enhancement of SATA support
- Enhancement of Capacity Clip Function
The Feature Tool allows you to: |
- Enable or disable the read-ahead or write cache.
- Change the drive Automatic Acoustic Management settings
to the:
- Lowest acoustic emanation setting (Quiet Seek Mode),
or
- 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.
- Configure SATA interface - adjust maximum speed and
enable/disable Spread Spectrum Clocking.
| Warning!: Switching your drive to
support 3.0Gb/s, or enabling spread spectrum clocking
and then using it, may render your drive unusable in a
system that can't support these functions. If in doubt,
please contact your system manufacturer.
| |
| Download
Windows diskette creator (1,729 KB) |
Having
trouble creating the bootable diskette? |
| Download
binary diskette image (non-Windows systems) (1474
KB) |
|
Download
a CD image (2,654 KB) - create a bootable CD* for
Linux, Windows and other Operating Systems
* Requires CD-RW drive and software. |
More information... |
- Feature
Tool Users Guide - contains instructions for creating
the bootable diskette under Windows and Linux, and
information on how to use the program.
|
|
| Disk Manager |
| Looking for Disk Manager? Disk Manager is no
longer available for download on our site, because systems
with Windows XP and 2000 don't require it. Regardless whether
you use Windows 9.x or the latest version of Windows, our simple
installation guide will take you through the installation
steps, and our partitioning
and formatting guide covers all the details you need to
know for installing our drive on Windows operating systems.
Please follow the advice in these guides. If you need
additional help or have questions, feel free to contact
our support center. |
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| Optimize your drive |
| Tools to optimize and customize our
drives |
| Power
Booster | See the Feature
Tool listed above for more tools. |
|
| 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.
|
| Download
Power Booster (156 KB) |
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| Productivity tools for hard
disk drive related businesses |
| Ultrastar/Deskstar/Travelstar Tools
developed specifically for resellers and OEM system
integrators |
| DDD-SI |
| DDD-SI is an easy-to-use Windows software
package we developed for Ultrastar, Deskstar, and Travelstar
system integrators. This tool allows you to modify, optimize,
initialize or test our industry leading hard disk drives for
integration. Single or multiple hard disk drives need to be
outside of their target System. Once DDD-SI is configured, you
can easily: |
- Optimize a disk drive
- Analyze / repair a disk drive
- Initialize a disk drive
- Assist with disk drive integration
- Provide production line support
- Provide information for remote assistance
|
 How
to obtain a copy of DDD-SI |
| DDD-SI
User's Guide |
| Note: If you see
a blank page after clicking on the above PDF link, right-click
on the link and select: "Save Target As..." Save the PDF file
to a location of your choice, and open it directly.
|
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| *PDF format requires the Adobe
Acrobat Reader®. |
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