All files in this archive CSU.SHK have been declared as and have been placed in the public domain per the author, Craig Peterson. Should anybody need varification his snail address and Tel. numbers are noted at the close of his letter to me with the files, as noted below in the copy. Charles Turley 1-22-97 ----------------------------------------------------------- January 12, 1997 Charles Turley 115 Santa Clara Street Brisbane, CA 94005-1736 Dear Charles, I'll bet you thought you were never going to see this stuff. I appologize for the delay. A number of things got in the way, including the loss of my job. Anyway, enclosed you will find the original source files for CSU in Merlin. I used Merlin.8 for my assemblies, as I remember. In the info directory you will find some more info to check out. As I recall, I think you said that you had a manual for CSU. I have a v1.5 manual here. But only on paper, not on disk. If you need a copy of v1.5 on paper, let me know. I just got done using CSU to help me create a dual disk. I've got a Quantum 810 meg disk on my Mac, and I reformatted it to put two 32 meg Apple Prodos partitions on it, so I could keep my Apple II stuff on the same drive as the Mac. Apple File Exchange allows me to look at such partitions from the Mac and copy over things that I might want to convert to ClarisWorks, etc. Note: CSU was written in the days when a big hard drive was 120 meg. So if one examines something like an 810 meg drive, some of the block count displays will have ?s in them. The internals work ok, but my numerical display routine was only set up to display a certain number of characters, so it put a ? at the front of excessively large numbers. I ought to go back and fix that, but phooey. If you need anything more, let me know, heh, heh, heh. Craig Peterson 2434 Hill Street Santa Monica, CA 90405 hm 310-450-4138 wk 818-709-5000 x211 ----------------------------------------------------------- Text below was added for info on archive contents and use, follow. Exact copies from INFO FILES folder. Charles Turley 1-22-97 ----------------------------------------------------------- Chris, I received the manual and disk for CSU v1.5, and it looks good. I have a couple of suggestions if you make any changes to the manual for future printing: Page 9, paragraph 2, line 4; "eliminated if" s/b "eliminated" Page 9, paragraph 5, line 4; "In other works," s/b "In other words," Page 10, para. 7, ln 2; "will demonstrated." s/b "will be demonstrated." Page 12, para. "1. Number..", ln 2; "incremnt" s/b "increment" Page 20, para. 3, ln 1; "Revise Name/siz" s/b "Alter Name,Size" (see pg 19) Page 21, "DELETE KEY" suggest; "character in back of" s/b "character left of" Page 22, para. 2, ln 2; "(32768K)" s/b "(32767.5K)" Page 22, last para., ln 3; "Revise Name,Siz" s/b "Alter Name,Size" (-> pg 19) Page 23, under filecard; "filescard" s/b "filecard" Also, I think the ability to dump any block on the drive is a handy feature which is not mentioned in the manual. I suggest adding the following around page 9: ------------ At the conclusion of the Get Drive Info printout, you will see the prompt: 'D' to Dump Partitions, Return for Main Menu. Pressing 'D' will produce the 'Input printer slot:' prompt. Immediately after you press the output slot number, which can be a printer or the screen, the CSU will begin to dump the raw partition block info, blocks 0,1,2.... The display can be paused by pressing the space bar. The output can be aborted by pressing Return or Esc. After all the current partitions are dumped, pressing any key returns you to the main menu. An extra feature of this dumping capability is that if you hold down the Open-Apple key when pressing the printer slot number for the dump, you will be prompted to enter a beginning block number and an ending block number. Use the space bar/arrow keys to set these block numbers. (See section on Volume Size Editing later in this manual.) This allows you to easily dump any given block on the entire drive. ----------- I hope my above comments are of some value. Thanks for the manual, etc. And good luck in the turbulent times ahead. :) And how's mom doing? :) Cheers. ----------------------------------------------------------- Sub: Chinook SCSI Utilities, v1.5 Find out what the Chinook SCSI Utilities can do for you and your hard drive. Full support of the new Apple High Speed SCSI card. 7 new messages. ************ ------------ Category 21, Topic 14 Message 2 Wed Jul 18, 1990 CHINOOK.1 [Chris] at 01:31 EDT ***** PRODUCT ANNOUNCEMENT **** Chinook SCSI Utilities v1.5 Chinook Technology is pleased to announce version 1.5 of the Chinook SCSI Utilities, featuring full support of the new Apple High Speed SCSI Card. The Chinook SCSI Utilities are vastly superior to the HDSC Utilities that come with the Apple rev C card. They also offer features not available with utilities supplied with the new High Speed SCSI card. Some of the features of v1.5 include: 1. Very flexible partitioning: Allows the creation of up to 7 partitions on a SCSI hard drive. 2. Low level formatting and disk initialization are available within a single program. 3. Select desired interleave: With many different types of accelerators available, a hard disk manufacturer cannot select the optimum interleave for each customers system such that they can obtain maximum performance from their hard drive. 4. Displays drives bad block map: This is a summary of all bad blocks that have been re-mapped by either the manufacturer during drive verification, or were later mapped out by either the drive itself or by programs such as CSU. 5. Bad block re-mapping: This is the only program available that re-maps bad blocks to alternate good blocks reserved on the drive. Note this is NOT the same as marking a block bad using a bad block file. After a bad block has been recapped using CSU, whenever the operating system requests to read the bad block, the drive substitutes an alternate good block. In other words, after a bad block has been re-mapped, it ceases to exist. 6. Media verify using multi-block reads and a multiple pass option: Use of multi-block reads allows verification of a 40MB drive in about 4 minutes compared to about 20 minutes or longer by Copy II Plus or standard ProDOS 8 utilities. The multi-block reads are used only on the High Speed SCSI card. The multiple pass option allows the user to have CSU verify the drive a set number of passes with no user intervention required. In this manner, it is possible to verify a drive continuously (or at least for great lengths of time). 7. Drive geometry: Users of the High Speed SCSI Card are presented with extensive drive geometry information. Information returned by CSU includes; drive serial number, number of heads, number of cylinders, interleave, bytes/sector, sectors/track and more. 8. Disk Statistics Disk statistics include 3 tests. Test 1: Read block 0 1000 times. Test 2: 1000 seeks across 1/3 of the disks surface Test 3: Read 1000 sequential blocks. Test 1 helps us to determine if the drive has disk caching or not. If not, the spin speed of the drive is determined from the results. Test 2 approximates the average access time of the drive. Test 3 shows how long it takes to read 1000 sequential blocks. This is the number that changes as interleave is changed. This test is done in two ways, one using the standard single block Smartport read command. The 2nd way is by using multi-block reads bypassing the ProDOS operating system. In most cases, multi-block reads are almost 10 times faster! 9. ProDOS 8 interleave simulation. This test simulates the range of interleaves a drive is capable of supporting. This way, you don't have to spend hours re-formatting your drive. This test does NOT yield accurate results for GS/OS. Program Compatibility: Operating system: ProDOS 8 Computers: Apple ][+, IIe, IIe (enhanced) and IIGS SCSI Card: Rev C or High Speed SCSI (not all features are available with the Rev C card). Supported SCSI Hard drives: MiniScribe: 8425S, 8051S Seagate: ST1XXN, ST2XXN series Quantum Pro 40S, 80S, 105S Conner CP3020, 3040, 3180, 3100, 3200 Imprimis/CDC 160MB drive Syquest removable drive Chinook believes that any embedded SCSI hard drive that is compatible with the Apple SCSI card is compatible with CSU. Price: $29.95 Contact: Chinook Technology Order: 800/999-7034 Information: 303/678-5544 ------------ ----------------------------------------------------------- Item 1306402 90/09/27 16:49 From: A2.JAY Jay Jennings To: C.PETERSON5 Craig A. Peterson Sub: SCSI Utilities I'm writing the descriptions for products in our new "big" catalog. I just got finished writing the descriptions for the 3 SCSI Cards we carry and need to say something about the Chinook SCSI Utilities. I'm wondering what your software does that the software that comes with a SCSI card doesn't do? Is it better in some way? Thanks for any help you can give me. Jay Jennings A2-Central Jay, CSU v1.5 supports both the Apple Rev C SCSI card and the Apple DMA SCSI card. It also supports just about every Apple ever made, including 40 column or 80 column videos, upper and/or lower case displays, and 'non-enhanced' //e's. Most of Apple's software only supports your enhanced Apple //e's or better. CSU uses a filecard interface quite similar to that of Appleworks. The primary feature that it offers is the ability to low level format the drive to any desired interleave (within the capabilities of the drive). In addition, the user can fully verify the drive, including the partition map portion, and if necessary, bad blocks can be mapped out by the drive and replaced with good blocks provided by the mfr expressly for that purpose. This ends up being transparent to the operating system and to the user. CSU can also allow the user to revise the partition sizes on the drive, with or without doing a new low level format. Although it is strongly recommended that a user backup his hard drive before changing any of the partition sizes, it is possible, for example, to move info from partitions 1, 2, & 3 up to partition 4. Then partitions 1, 2, and 3 can be resized, taking care that their total size (part 1 + part 2 + part 3) is the same. CSU permits the user to selectively high level format only the partitions he wants, in this case 1 & 2 & 3, leaving partition 4 unchanged and located at the exact same spot on the drive. Once the new high level formats are completed, the info can be moved back to where the user wants. I did exactly this recently on my CT-40. A nice feature of CSU is that it allows the user to get a tremendous amount of info about the parameters of his drive, within the limitations of the particular SCSI card. With the Apple DMA SCSI card, the user can get a printout of all the major partition info on the drive, including mfr ID, mfr revision level and S/N, size of the drive, sectors/track, current interleave, number of heads & cylinders & tracks & bytes/sector, current SCSI card ROM#, the Primary and Grown List of Defects on the drive (from the mfr or mapping out), smartport device type and subtype, and whether the device has removable media. It also should output the SyQuest cartridge number. The Rev C card is more limited and can't display the sectors/track, current interleave, heads or cylinders or tracks, and the list of current defective sectors is more limited. I tried to give the user access to every possible bit of information that the SCSI interface is capable of delivering, and then some. Using CSU, it is possible to dump the partition map info, or _ANY_ block on the drive. In addition, a few speed tests are available that can help in comparing drives, including an estimate on raw dumping power of the DMA SCSI in 100's of K per second (using 12K block reads). The speed tests are very similar to the Disk.Test program on GEnie. CSU v1.5 operates under ProDOS 8, so larger block reads weren't feasible, but 12K is almost fully converged on the max transfer of the interface. The biggest limitation of CSU v1.5 is that it currently doesn't work with CV Tech's new RamFast SCSI.... :). You should ask this same question of Chris Adams at Chinook, as he may give you a slightly different perspective. Also, I've sent copies of CSU to Dennis Doms and Tom Vanderpool, so you could take a look at it and ask them their impressions. In looking back on what I've wrote, I'm embarrassed a bit. I rather dislike 'marketing', but I tried to put a lot into CSU. It looks like I'm beating on my chest a bit too much, but it does do a bunch of stuff. Cheers. Craig Peterson :-)} *S ------------------------------------------------------------ -EOF-