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6.
T
ests menu
The menu contains the operations necessary for work with an HDD, arranged into functional groups. Let us examine
some of them.
6.1.
U
tility status
This menu item opens the dialog that displays the status of the utility and allows you to re-read the HDD ID
information, DT lists from RAM and ROM, the list of modules, restart autotuning, and modify some runtime settings of
the utility (
). Clicking the "refresh" buttons makes the utility read again the service information of the drive.
This is necessary in cases when non-standard methods are used to start a HDD (with controller isolation or channel
short connection).
Fig. 6.1
Media Cache information reflects MC State (whether Media Cache is enabled / disabled / unsupported), MC Size (size
of the area allocated for Media Cache), and MCMT Ver (Media Cache support module version).
The 'Phys LBA alignment factor' field is intended for drives based on physical sectors with the user data capacity larger
than 512 bytes (e.g., 4096), its purpose is to associate USER LBA = 0 with the physical native LBA
. In most cases the
utility identifies the field value correctly. However, if the recognized value is wrong, you can specify it manually and
Lock it using the corresponding checkbox.
The 'Restart autotuning' button initiates reading of drive memory ranges via ATA and their subsequent analysis, which
the utility then uses to obtain the information about Sys File Volume = 0, 3, and some other system information objects
of the HDD being examined.
The 'System Files reading method' radio button determines how the utility will read the HDD system files. When the
utility starts, it detects the appropriate method automatically. In this dialog utility selection can be modified as
necessary. 'Terminal' option means that the utility was unable to access Sys Files via ATA and therefore further
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E.g., for a while standard practice implied such data alignment, where USER LBA = 63 would match the beginning
of a physical sector of 4096 bytes. In that case the alignment factor = 1. USER LBA = 8 at that was aligned with the
beginning of the 8th physical sector.
