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ATADEMO Device Testing Program

ATADEMO - ATA Demonstration

NOTE: ATADEMO is an old Parallel ATA (PATA) and CompactFlash (CF) testing program. If you are testing Serial ATA (SATA) devices you should be using the newer program AHCDEMO. ATADEMO version 12A0 is the last release of ATADEMO.

THE LAST UPDATE TO THIS PROGRAM WAS IN 2012.

The full version of ATADEMO for DOS is FREE. See below.

Note: If you are testing SATA devices you really should be using AHCDEMO.

Brief description: A program to assemble and execute any ATA or ATAPI command.

Here is a partial list of the functions supported by ATADEMO:

• All ATA command protocols (NonData, PIO, DMA and ATAPI).
• All ATA/PATA resets (SRST and ATAPI DeviceReset).
• CHS, LBA28, LBA48 and ATAPI LBA32 sector addressing.
• Direct support for some ATA commands: SMART, SET FEATURES, etc.
• Direct support for many ATAPI commands: Read TOC, R/W 10/12, SSU, Inquiry, etc.
• Data generation and data compare.
• Fast repeating of I/O commands.
• Full tracing of all host I/O activities.
• Flexiable logging options.
• Script files supporting IF/ELSE, WHILE loops and subroutines (CALL/RETURN).
• Global and local 32-bit variables and C style expressions.
• String variables and string operations.
• Built in simple windowing system.
• Built in text editor.
• Keyboard input and screen output recall.
• Decoding and display of most ATA IDENTIFY data.

Note: If you are testing PATA ATA devices you need ATADEMO!

ATADEMO supports a wide range of PCI Bus Mastering ATA host adapters. And all PCMCIA PC Card ATA I/O and memory interface modes are supported.

ATADEMO has been updated to support Serial ATA (SATA) devices. SATA seems to have lots of problems and ATADEMO seems to be able to find many, if not all, of these problems. These problems appear as timeout errors, data corruption errors and other strange events.

CLICK HERE to get the free full version of ATADEMO for DOS.

Page updated 19 Aug 2019.