Hi Larry,
Yes, lot of questions, were to start....
Versions: 3.x and 4.x are all CHS addressing IDE-drivers.
Were the 4.x have upgraded error-retry-logic and (since 4.4) SD support.
Versions 5.x and above are LBA addressed IDE-drivers.
Which are indeed faster then CHS. Simply because the atari does not
need to calculate the location of the sector. The IDE-logic can do this much
faster.
FDISK2.XEX: I do not recall that I have released a DOS-loadable version.
But perhaps I have a short memory at the present. The last stable version
is always included in the flashportion (x.xF) of the cartridge as in the
selftest area of the EPROM-versions (x.xI otr x.xE).
Compatibility: It could be that your module directs the MyIDE-OS to
directly boot from a paritition that is not valid and only contains garbage.
This will lockup surely. Perhaps you can try this; put the trouble module
in a PC and try to format it. When it works ok, you know it's fine. Then
use a sector editor to write all $00 zero's to absolute sector $0000. This
will erase any gargabe the atari reads as MyIDE-partition. Be sure you
access absolute sector $0000 and not relative. The relative sector is soft-
sector outside the boot sectors, just to prevent noobs to erase partition-information.
Cheers, later,
Sijmen.