FWB Hard Disk Toolkit 2.0 fixes Fireball issue

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Will the new FWB Hard Disk Toolkit 2.0 provide proper support for write-caching on Quantum Fireball drives? What other features does it have?
FWB Hard Disk Toolkit 2.0 works properly on Quantum Fireball drives with write-caching enabled. Customers using HDT 2.0 will not experience the Fireball write-cache corruption issue.

Other features of HDT 2.0 include:
1. Optimized for System 7.5.3 and PCI PowerPC-based MacOS systems
2. Formats, partitions, and tests SCSI and IDE drives
3. Auto-setup mode automates disk preparation in one step
4. Supports background formatting
5. Allows format of multiple drives at once
6. Ability to tune partitions for maximum flexibility
7. Includes PowerPC native drivers for better performance on MacOS based systems

Note: At this time Power Computing has not licensed this version for release to customers.

Machines Affected: PowerWave, PowerCurve, 100, and 120 systems using Fireball drives
Published Date: Feb 20, 2012