Victoria 4.73b

What's new in this version:

- Found that with some unfavorable combination of parameters in the settings file (vcr40.ini), the port numbers are no longer remembered.
- The window with a SMART full screen is rotated: right-click the menu item "Full screen" or CTRL + A in the menu. This is still a temporary decision upon request, until a common full-screen interface appears.
- Added and improved SMART for Kingston SSD.
- The program was adapted to USB drives, in which the USB bridge converts the standard 512-byte logical sector to 4096-byte. At the same time, about 20 places were fixed in the code, and a display in the passport of drives with a non-standard size of the logical sector was added.
- Numeration of sectors began to work correctly when recording, displaying large sectors in the HEX editor. Time, scan percentages, maximum block size, and even timings are adjusted to non-standard sector sizes.
- Now, with unsuccessful REMAP, reading, writing, erasing a block and Refresh via the API - the program displays the Windows system message about this situation in the log (since it is generated in kernel32.dll, it goes immediately in the Windows language - do not be surprised). Thus, it is possible, for example, to distinguish the physical defect of the drive from the access denial because the MBR is not turned off.
- Got an A-DATA USB drive, "Nobility NH92", on which the program could not get SMART. It turned out that inside there is an idiotic USB bridge MA6116, which falls into a stupor from 16-byte SCSI commands. I had to make it possible to manually enable compatibility mode - the Old USB / SAS mode jackdaw on the Setup tab.
- Test the program with a daw and without it. On most new devices, everything should work in any state.
- Eliminated the deficiency, because of which, when receiving a passport / SMART during the scan, a timeout error occurred.
- The bug is fixed, when the disk is already selected on the passport tab, the passport is read ... and on the Advanced tab, the partition table does not allow to read before the passport has been received yet again.
- Fixed a bug due to which when reading with REMAP the program stopped after finding a defect (it manifested itself only in PIO).
- Fixed a bug due to which the pop-up menu sometimes disappeared when the scan was stopped after a defect.
- Fixed deficiencies in the procedure for stopping the HDD spindle / SSD sleep by USB. It turned out that the native SCSI command does not work on one of the USB bridges. The procedure for attempting to send an ATA command instead of SCSI via USB was added, and everything became normal.
- The error due to which the program took some SSDs for HDD during the "shaft stop" has also been fixed.
- Eliminated the reason why there could be an access violation error on fast PCs when closing the main window.
- Made prevention of the exit of program windows off the screen at startup.
- The value of "never" in the timeout parameter again, as needed, means infinite waiting time. In addition to the Refresh function, where it means "update each block."
- Returned the vertical scroll bar to the scan grid. On request.
- I returned memorization of a daw Grid on the Tests tab.
- Made it possible to disable the display of CHS-parameters in the passport due to their obsolescence.
- Added display of Smart Command Transport (SCT) parameters in drive passport.
- On the Advanced tab, you can now copy numbers from the MBR partition table to the clipboard, as well as expand the range of partition addresses into a scanned surface.
- When installing the HPA 'LBA / Mb' checkbox, now some values are converted to others immediately (previously, for this, the slider had to be moved).
- There were rare complaints that version 4.72 stopped working with IDE screws on some computers. Perhaps due to a change in the way of giving commands, but there is a possibility that the installed “Only non-destructive functions” checkbox is “guilty” on the Setup tab (its effect also changed in version 4.72). I did not manage to see this glitch with my own eyes. But just in case, I returned the DFP_SEND_DRIVE_COMMAND method, leaving the more modern IOCTL_ATA_PASS_THROUGH.
- At the request of the forum realized the "American dream": in the input / output fields of large numbers the possibility of their display with the thousands separator is added. For example: 1'953'525'167. The function is disabled on the Setup tab - the "Thousand separator" checkbox. The Separator char key appeared in the vcr40.ini file, after which you can specify the separator sign in quotes: a dot, an apostrophe, or a space. One field is left without separators, due to lack of space. After the transition "Victoria" to the new interface - will be everywhere.
- The Power-Up In Standby feature set device spin-up command has been added to the procedure for obtaining an EXT passport. This allows you to run and test the hard drive with disabled shaft promotion, for example, from some DVRs.
- Starting from version 4.73, the program goes without an exe-file packer (according to IT specialists, some antiviruses scold it), so the file size is about 2 MB (it was ~ 700 kb). This is normal and does not affect the quality of work.
- Fixed other minor bugs and made minor changes to the algorithms.