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Introducing the SpeedTools Utilities for MacOS X...

Intech Software Corporation is proud to offer our new flagship product for those of you who love MacOS X: the spanking new SpeedTools Utilities, offered exclusively for MacOS X.

Have Mac OS 7.0 - 9.2.2?
Don't worry, the Classic version of SpeedTools Utilities is included too!

Overview:

The SpeedTools Utilities consist of a suite of utilities managed by an application which controls the launching, documentation and version control of each individual component utility, such as Disk Defrag and QuickBack. An easy-to-use installation and removal application is provided to make installation a snap, yet powerful enough to allow you to customize which utility component set you would like to create.

One of the great strengths of software is also its greatest weakness: updates. If you are reading this page, you obviously have an internet connection. Well, Intech has put your internet connection to good use and taken the hassle out of trying to keep up with the latest releases by offering automatic version checking for each component. (For those of you with dial up, don't worry: checking for new versions can also be done manually.) If a new version is available, a small letter 'i' will be visible in the top right corner of the utility list item. Simply click on the 'i' button and a drawer window will open with all the details of the new version!

More Information:

To get more information about any one of the individual component utilities, simply click in its list rectangle in the picture above to go to an information page. Each component's user's guide is also provided in Adobe's Portable Document Format (pdf).

Intech SpeedTools ATA Hi-Cap Support Driver:

The Intech ATA Hi-Cap Support Driver software was created to allow the use of extended capacity ATA drives (drives greater than 128 Gigabytes in size) on older (Pre-Mirrored Door) G4 and G3 Macintoshes running MacOS X versions 10.2 and later. Without this software installed, any extended capacity drive which is connected to the native ATA bus on older Macintosh models will be limited to only 128 Gigabytes. Later model G4's and all G5's do not suffer from this limitation.

Important Limitations:

If you plan to boot from this drive under MacOS X or if you plan to use this drive under BOTH MacOS 9 and X, please download a copy of our SpeedTools ATA Hi-Cap Support Driver Read Me file. There you will find a full explanation of the issues involved and several recommendations for eliimiinating possbile problems.

Additionally, if you boot your Macintosh from another source (such as a MacOS software installation CD/DVD or a disk repair utility CD/DVD) the SpeedTools ATA Hi-Cap Support Driver will NOT be available to load and your drive will be limited to 128 Gigabytes until you reboot from a MacOS X installation which has the ATA Hi-Cap Support Driver installed. For maximum safety and compatibility, please read the SpeedTools ATA Hi-Cap Support Driver Read Me file for details on safe partitioning stragtegies. Safe partitioning is a very simple proceedure and will insure against any possible scenario which would prevent you from getting to your drive's data.

New Info :

Intech has been pleased by the great amount of interest we have received about this product. Based upon the feedback we have been getting, there seems to be a few key questions which are being most frequently asked.

Q. Will I be able to recover my Hi-Cap boot drive with a repair utility if I need to boot from an emergency CD/DVD?
A. Absolutely. All you need to do is follow the simple "safe partitioning" guidelines listed in the SpeedTools ATA Hi-Cap Support Driver Read Me file.
Here is how it's done: After you've setup your drive according to our guidlines, if your drive fails and you need to boot from another source to repair it, that first bootable partition will be FULLY accessible to any and all repair utilities. After you've repaired the boot volume, boot from it and now you can repair the rest of the drive. In short, disk repair just requires this one additional step.

Q. Will this driver fix capacity limitations with older FireWire cases or PCI ATA Cards?
A. No. For this driver to work, you will have to connect your drive directly to your ATA bus to get the full capacity of the drive.

Q. Is an ATA drive which is installed in a FireWire or USB case supported?
A. No, only drives which are connected to the Apple built-in ATA bus are supported.

Q. Will I get the full speed of the drive?
A. There is no performance penalty for using this driver whatsoever.

Q. What if I don't have another drive to boot from while I'm setting up my Hi-Cap ATA Drive?
A. Right now Intech is handling these situations on a customer by customer basis. If you have purchased this product and don't have a secondary disk drive to boot from, please request a special driver and drive partition extender directly from the Intech Support Staff. To expedite processing please include a copy of your reciept.

Q. The "Safe Partitioning" guidlines in the 'Read Me' pdf file recommends I setup a 127.99GB first partition and allocate the rest of the drive in a second partition. Can't I create a smaller (less than 127.99 GB) first partition to boot from and allocate the rest to a second partition?
A. Yes, this will work. But it is riskier: Intech does not consider any partition scheme which causes a single parition's volume to span the 128GB addressing "barrier" to be ideal. To understand why, consider what will happen if you have a volume which spans this barrier and for some reason the Intech Hi-Cap Support Driver does not load. The volume which spans the "barrier" will still mount and appear to function as normal. However, when a read or write request is made which is beyond this barrier, it will fail. This means you would likely never even be aware of the situation until you actually see such an error. In theory, whichever application program made the failed request should be able to elegantly handle a data transfer error, but you never know for sure. This is why we at Intech think any partition strategy other than the one we recommend is not the best choice.