uBeeDisk

This release sees the source code reorganized, allowing other disk detection modules to be added easily. The new detection modules Applix 1616/OS and FM were added. Changes were made to the way track buffering works and its option. Logical and physical sectors are now shown with more information if the --verbose option is used. Writing the complete info file when "abort" is selected has been fixed. The --start and --finish options were fixed. This release fixes the FLAGS_C5H0S0 format which was broken in version 2.0.0 and the recovery option if the drive door is opened when reading a sector. It changes the action for the Retry method.

This release greatly increases the reading speed from floppy disks. Spindle motor RPM monitoring was added, which may be used for calibration. A clean heads process was added. Track reads are now buffered with programmable skew settings. Key detection allows the copy process to be paused with a Pause menu which permits head cleaning and changing of the error handling mode. Many problems have been fixed, including issues with some difficult 5.25" and 8" drives, ubeedisk.ini.sample has been overhauled and includes new disk formats and many new options were added. New Gamma, Applix, and IBM3740 built-in formats have been added.

This release fixes a problem when attempting to read Honeysoft disks and a disk driver type that does not support "dsk_psecid" (i.e. using the "remote" type and the FDS.COM program on the Microbee computer).

This release adds Microbee hard disk formats "teac - Microbee TEAC HDD 10MB 306 cylinders, 4 heads, 17 sect/track" and "mscribe - Microbee Miniscribe HDD 10MB 612 cylinders, 2 heads, 17 sect/track" to the built in formats. Microbee hard disk "mbee-teac", "mbee-mscribe" and floppy disk "mbee-ds40", "mbee-ss80" sections were added to "ubeedisk.ini.sample". Windows "ub-*-makedsk.bat" and "ub-*-makeraw.bat" scripts were fixed where a $1 was used instead of %1.

This release has improved access to 'remote' disks and fixed some problems with the 'retry1' value. The 'retry1' value when copying now defaults to 30 or 1 if the input type is 'remote'. A low value for 'remote' is required as too many retries were being made on native hardware for general usage. The 'retry1' value when scanning now defaults to 5 or 1 if the input type is set to 'remote'. The --retry-l1 option can be used to override the 'retry1' value for 'scan' commands. A fix was made to the 'retry1' value so that the default value of 30 can be changed when using the --retry-l1 option.