Victoria Universal program for testing storage devices : Contents: Key features Requirements Setting "Setup" Menu "Setup" Timers HDD Where to repair HDD Key features : When working through the ports: * ; Reading Passport drive and displays the full technical data on the storage; * ATA/SATA ( ); Determination of installed ATA / SATA controllers (including extras); * ; Noise level management; * SMART , . View the SMART parameters of the drive, a rapid assessment of his condition for pseudo-scales and the status register. IBM/HITACHI; Includes viewing of hidden attributes drives IBM / HITACHI; * HDD SMART- ; Running the built-in HDD SMART-tests and control of their passage; * Host Protected Area: ; Working with the Host Protected Area: change and restore the physical volume of the disc; * 12 , , ; 12 modes of testing the surface of verification, reading and writing, with counting and mapping addresses of defective blocks; * ; Graphing surface * : 4- , , ; Flaw detector: an analysis of the surface with 4 all kinds of tests, with calculation and mapping of unstable sites, indicating the exact address of each volatile auto sector, and adding them to a text file; * HDD, INDEX; Measuring the frequency of rotation HDD, including the new drives without a field INDEX; * (remap) 8- ; Hides surface imperfections by remapping sectors of the reserve (remap) for any of the 8 tests; * ( ): Measuring the performance of hard disk (benchmark functions): * , HDD; Measuring the speed of the linear, nonlinear and random reading from the HDD; * HDD ; Measuring the speed of the actuator HDD and time of access to sectors; * ; Measuring the speed of reading graphic methods; * ; View the contents of the sectors with the possibility of editing * ( ) - " "; Disk Cleanup (or part thereof) of information - "low-level format"; * : HDD, , .. Manage security options: setting a password on the HDD, the removal of the password prompt erased without the possibility of its restoration, etc. * HDD; Ability to stop and start the spindle motor HDD; * HDD ( , ), ; Test the actuator HDD (the same way as it makes the OS with heavy use), to identify the reliability and thermal stability of PC disk subsystem; * HDD ( HDD BIOS); View information about logical partitions HDD showing the interface (without defining the HDD in BIOS); * HDD, , ; Display modes HDD, the contents of registers, and visualization of error codes on indicator light; API: Differences in the mode API: * "" - DDD; Ability to test drive for the presence of "glitches" and distortion of information during the reception and transmission - an option DDD; * ; Disable work with passwords; * Host Protected Area; Disable work with the Host Protected Area; * ; Disable Image registers; : System requirements: - CPU Intel Pentium III. - CPU is not lower than Intel Pentium III. P4 2 . Recommended P4 2 GHz. - Windows 2000/XP ( 9 , ); - Operating system Windows 2000/XP (Under 9x program works only through the ports, and much worse); - RAM 64Mb ; - RAM 64Mb or higher; - SVGA ( 800600. 10280*1024); - Video card SVGA (graphics mode is not lower than 800x600. Recommended 10280 * 1024); - , ; - Keyboard, Mouse; - , "" IE; - Preferred access to the Internet, and not crippled by different "tviki" IE; - HDD; - It is desirable to have a good PSU and good cooling test HDD; Setting "Setup" Menu "Setup" ATA protocol settings: ATA. ATA protocol settings: Configuration Protocol ATA. PIO. Used only in mode PIO. BUSY Timeout - ( ), HDD . BUSY Timeout - adjustment of time (in milliseconds), during which the program will wait for a response HDD after power. Ready Timeout - ( ), HDD . Ready Timeout - adjustment of time (in milliseconds) during which the program will be expected willingness HDD before serving team. DREQ Timeout - ( ), HDD / ( ). DREQ Timeout - adjustment of time (in milliseconds), during which the program will be expected to give preparedness HDD / take a block of data after power data (read or write). ATA Timer - , . ATA Timer - select the type of timer that will be used to measure these time intervals. "". More information about timers, see the section "timers. Common presets, passport options: , HDD. Common presets, passport options: basic preset options Passport HDD. Only non-destructive functions - - . Only non-destructive functions - only non-destructive functions. , HDD, . Turn off those features that make recording on testing HDD, to protect against abrasion of information on it. Get passport on PCI double click - PCI-. Get passport on PCI double click - to get a passport by double-clicking on the field of PCI-scan. . Made on request of the lazy. HDD. Allows you to avoid clicking on the passport HDD. PCI-. Instead, just click on the selected row PCI-controller. PIO. Only for the PIO. Don't remember Primary chan. - . Don't remember Primary chan. - Do not remember the primary channel controller of the motherboard in the program settings. ( HDD), . Allows you to avoid the erroneous choice of the primary channel (which usually hangs the system HDD), and thereby reduces the risk of accidental work with the system hard drive through the ports. PIO. It works only in PIO. , - . For those whose primary channel is free - you can turn off. Disable color into passport - HDD. Disable color into passport - turn off the coloring passport HDD. , - HDD. For aesthetes who, for whatever reason do not like the colors passport HDD. Only SCSI passport command - SCSI- . Only SCSI passport command - only the SCSI-command to obtain a passport. API. Applies only to the API. , PCI- ( , Silicon Image 3112) . The fact is that some PCI-controllers (in particular, Silicon Image 3112) have a bug. HDD ( ). They appear on both channels HDD with identical passport (though really they are different). , SCSI . And, emulating SCSI, this bug does not occur. , SCSI (-SCSI ) - . Option makes sense to include only the presence of problems, because the passport SCSI for ordinary (non-SCSI drives) - incomplete. API. It only works in the API. Don't get drive type - . Don't get drive type - not to request the type of disc in obtaining a passport. API. Only for the API. " " (CD/Flash/FDD). When installing the program does not ask daw so-called "geometric parameters" disc and its type (CD / Flash / FDD). . Instead, these parameters are calculated analytically. ( , FireWire ). Avoids hang some controllers (which is rare, and mostly on FireWire devices). Show logical drives - API-. Show logical drives - skip the logical drives in the list of API-devices. , ( , HDD). If the crow is installed, in addition to the physical drives will appear logical (in the form of letters, except for sections HDD). . Sometimes you need. Ignore FDD - - API-. Ignore FDD - skip the floppy in the list of API-devices. , , . Disk drives are very slow, and in determining the start to make noise, that is not always desirable. . Installed daw exclude recourse to them. 'I am speak Russian' - , . 'I am speak Russian' - allows the display Russian messages in the user interface, which sometimes occur. . They are mostly humorous character. Classic group style - . Classic group style - toggles rounded framework for the rectangular. Grid lines enabled - . Grid lines enabled - includes mapping support in the smart grid and scan. Logs dir: - , . Logs dir: - name of the directory in which the program will add the files of passports and other lessons from the storage media. Log settings: . Log settings: setting log logging events. , , .. In the course of the program, all user actions, messages, errors, etc. . can be automatically written into a text file. , / , . In this section you can specify a file name, enable / disable the log, as well as its clean. Seek & Surface scan options: . Seek & Surface scan options: options test surface and test positioning. Swap navigation Up/Dn keys - . Swap navigation Up / Dn keys - swap button jumps to test the surface. Auto repeat jump keys - . Auto repeat jump keys - include Autorepeat jumps while holding these buttons. , . Next in the box you can specify the repeat interval, in milliseconds. Enable breaking internal loops - . Enable breaking internal loops - Enable interrupt internal cycles of the program. , . It is very useful for testing the faulty drive, which can freeze its program to block the reaction at the keys. - "Break ALL". If the crow is installed - the program responds promptly to the key "Break ALL". , ATA-, . However, interruption of internal loops and breaks and ATA-protocol, which is not always useful. Refresh LBA after passport - LBA seek'. Refresh LBA after passport - When applying for a passport is always re-lay out the first and last LBA in the input field scan and seek'a. . Previous figures in these fields are cleared. - HDD, ( , ). If the crow lifted - the program will only do so when you change HDD, automatically (which is a proprietary algorithm, greatly facilitating the life of the user). . Do not take it off. Reseting between LoopScan - HDD - . Reseting between LoopScan - If you send a scan loop HDD Soft reset before each new cycle. . It is necessary for preventing the influence of disk cache with a small step cycles. - . You should always keep it turned on - will be less problems. PIO. It works only in PIO. Don't blink border of pause key - "" . Don't blink border of pause key - turn off the flickering box around the button "pause" in the scan surface. Timings depending on HDD - . Timings depending on HDD - use intellectual adjustment program timings when testing surface. UDMA, , . These timings are dependent on the mode of UDMA, volume, models and much more. "" . The work becomes more flat map "tiles" in testing. . It is recommended to include. Ajusting RDTSC before tests - , . Ajusting RDTSC before tests - every time you run tests to check the CPU speed, and re-set timer. . It is recommended to include on laptops. RDTSC. This option is meaningless when cancel the timer RDTSC. Long-read actions count - . Long-read actions count - only for the professional version. , " " "Restore". Specifies how many sectors to read "a long reading of" mode "Restore". Timers set : . Timers set: set of types of timers in the program. , "" . Designed to eliminate potential problems and to achieve a stable behavior of the program on different hardware and operating systems. "Setup" 3 , . Tab "Setup" There are 3 switches belonging to the timer. . Let us consider in detail each of them. "Common RTC" "Common RTC" , , seek', ., API. This is a general timer, referring to scan the surface, seek'u, and etc., mainly in the mode API. RDTSC - . RDTSC - a clock counter of the CPU. Pentium I, , , . Starting with Pentium I, all processors support team, an outstanding number of cycles that have elapsed since its incorporation. . This allows you to use it for precise measurement of time intervals. , . But unfortunately, on some systems with multicore processors, this method may not work correctly. , , .. This will manifest itself as a ghost hangs, stops, issuing incorrect results, etc. "". "Glitches". , - GTC ( Get Tick Count), Windows. If these phenomena occur, the program allows you to use an alternative timer - GTC (short for Get Tick Count), a component of the operating system Windows. , RDTSC, HDD. This timer is less accurate than the RDTSC, but its capabilities in most cases it is sufficient for normal test HDD. "" , , - RDTSC. If the "Victoria" is used for multi-core computer, I recommend to test both versions timer, and if there are no glitches - select RDTSC. RDTSC . In the mononuclear systems, this mode RDTSC preferable. "Scan: PIO only" "Scan: PIO only" (Scan, Seek) . This timer measures the interval ONLY in test mode (Scan, Seek) through the port. API . When API he did not affect anything. , . Unlike the previous example, the essence of this switch in the other. RDTSC/GTC, - MMTimer ( "-"). In addition to standard RDTSC / GTC, you can choose an alternative - MMTimer (short for "Multimedia Timer"). , HDD. It has a low CPU load, and allows not to expend resources during testing HDD. , RDTSC/GTC 99%, MMTimer - 10-30% ( - 0-4%!). For comparison, in the mode RDTSC / GTC load on single-core system can reach 99%, and in the mode MMTimer - only 10-30% (and if you turn off the map - a 0-4%!). MMTimer, . We recommend you always use MMTimer, if possible. Windows 9. Problems may occur only in some versions of Windows 9x. : "Common RTC" RDTSC/GTC "Scan: PIO only". Note: Switch "Common RTC" has the privilege of the timer mode RDTSC / GTC in the "Scan: PIO only". "ATA Timer" "ATA Timer" ATA-, . This timer is used in the implementation of ATA-protocol, exclusively at work through the ports. HDD (DRQ, BUSY). It measures the basic intervals expectations HDD (DRQ, BUSY). RDTSC , - . Contra-use RDTSC the same as in the first example - hard bugs on multiprocessor systems. GTC , RDTSC . In this case, you should use GTC If no glitches, the RDTSC preferable. . You can try to use the combined variants. "Common RTC" GTC, "ATA Timer" RDTSC ( ). For example "Common RTC" in the mode of GTC, and "ATA Timer" mode RDTSC (that allows you to find a compromise between speed and stability). - . But on the contrary - is meaningless.