Imaging:

Case Management:

Bugfixes:

• Imaging: Write errors during frequent sector skips
• Imaging: When enabling Write Protection, DiskSense Ethernet was falling back to PIO mode when working with IDE drives
• Many other small bugfixes

Starting with this release, Windows XP and Vista are no longer supported. See this blog post for details.

New Features:

• Imaging: hex viewer for Target port
• Imaging: pre-hash, post-hash, auto-compare after imaging
• Imaging: reorganized settings
• Imaging: ability to export non-imaged sectors into csv
• Imaging: custom LBA intervals are now shown on the result screen as well as in case history
• Imaging: ability to view LBA addresses + contents of those sectors where file signatures were detected
• Case management: full history export/print
• Case management: file attachments
• Case management: picture previews
• Case management: more detailed logging of all actions (including write protection toggle)
• Case management: report style improvements
• Case management: Clear device history option has been removed to prevent accidental loss of case history
• Disk compare: significant speed improvements
• Disk compare: it is now possible to specify LBA intervals to compare
• New feature: Hash calculation for source and target (separate menu)
• Licensing: it is now possible to extend a subscription offline
• Better Ethernet unit reconnection upon connection loss
• Added a menu item for Disksense unit information
• Added a more obvious indication of disabled write protection

Major bugfixes:

• Fixed an SQLite error while scanning for file signatures
• Automatic diagnosis froze while head test in rare cases
• Password extraction on Seagate 5400.3 did not work in some cases
• Unclip HPA/DCO did not work for some 2.5-inch Seagate drives

New Features:

• Live stats of file signatures discovered during imaging
• Many functions can now be executed on the Target hard drive without the need to reconnect it to Source port
• Ability to run different operations on source and target ports simultaneously
• Added the ability to create a list of files containing sectors recovered with Read Long command
• New Imaging setting: "Limit target disk size to source size using HPA"
• Single-button, fully automatic HPA and DCO unclipping
• Added the ability to (re-)wipe sectors on target drive that were not copied from source
• GPT partitions support for ext2/3/4 in File Recovery and Imaging.

Improvements:

• Revamped and improved user interface
• Speed of imaging and file recovery operations has been improved on Ethernet unit
• Added HPA, DCO, Password indicators
• Case tracking now also tracks actions for Target disks separately; this is completely seamless
• Imager will now give a warning when the Source hard drive is clipped via either HPA or DCO
• Terminal history is now saved into the case management
• Modification dates of recovered files are now preserved
• Speed of MD5 and SHA checksum calculation was improved
• Other small improvements

Bugfixes:

• When performing by-head imaging into an image file, imaging could freeze on jump
• Bad sectors were not always highlighted during imaging on the block read speed graph (cosmetic)
• Formatting fixes in diagnosis report
• Insight did not properly record sudden power loss on IDE hard drives during imaging
• Rare crash when creating file lists
• Memory leak when resuming an imaging session
• Automatic password removal did not work on Hitachi L9SA drives
• Language fixes in Japanese and Chinese versions
• MD5/SHA checksum was not saved into case management upon completion of imaging
• More than 100 small bug fixes.

July 27, 2012
Atola Insight Release 2.6

New in Imaging:

• Better handling of damaged hard drives on DiskSense Ethernet units
• Disk-to-Disk imaging speed increased up to 180 MB/s on DiskSense Ethernet units
• Disk-to-File imaging speed increased up to 85 MB/s via DiskSense Ethernet units
• Added support for copying of only occupied sectors on ExFAT partitions
• Introduced additional settings for each pass (Forced PIO, Disable Read Cache)
• Added an option to automatically set the target disk capacity to match the source via HPA
• Current position of the imager is now more obvious

New in File Recovery:

• File Recovery now supports ExFAT partitions
• Each file now has an integrity indicator showing how much of the file Insight actually copied during the imaging process
• Added the ability to view file map on the disk to see which sectors of a file were actually copied
• File list generation
• Better speeds when working with IDE hard drives via DiskSense Ethernet unit
• Added support for very long paths

New in Diagnostics:

• Introducing a much better head checkup
• Better support for SSD media

New in Media Scan:

• It is now possible to define a timeout
• Better media scan speeds on DiskSense USB units

New in Media Recovery:

• Better logging in Media Recovery
• Added an option to use ReadLong (discard ECC) while performing Media Recovery

General improvements:

• Many speed improvements
• Better handling of SSD media
• DiskSense Ethernet can now have several IP addresses assigned to it at the same time
• Added an option to manage IP addresses for DiskSense Ethernet via DiskSense search window
• Atola Insight now sends a Spindown command to hard drives before powering them down to properly flush disk cache

Bug fixes:

• Fixed an issue in File Recovery due to which it was impossible to recover certain files on Ext2/3/4 partitions
• Many minor fixes

February 12, 2012
Atola Insight Release 2.5

New features:

• When imaging to file, Insight will always try to create a sparse file. This will significantly improve the speed of image file creation on a local NTFS volume, especially when performing reverse imaging.
• NTFS partitions declared in GPT (GUID partition table) are now supported by File Recovery and Data-Only Imaging
• Quick file search added to File Recovery
• Search from current folder added to File Recovery
• It is now possible to calculate the size of checked files in File Recovery

Bug fixes:

• Fixed a rare crash, after which it was impossible to resume imaging
• It was impossible to image certain WD drives by selected heads (for example WD Raptor)
• On certain PC platforms diagnostics by heads worked incorrectly (only on DiskSense Ethernet)

December 16, 2011
Atola Insight Release 2.4

Enhancements:

• Imaging interface was reworked to provide more streamlined process for manual multi-pass imaging
• LBA48 support for bad sector recovery (Read Long/Read discarding ECC)
• It is now possible to manually skip to a specific LBA during imaging
• Better support for firmware access and password recovery for the latest WD drives (including Raptor models).
• New ID sector viewer
• File recovery engine now does not pause to ask questions during the file recovery process
• New feature in Atola Imager Forensic version: Disk Viewer
• Atola Imager now has Home screen with Source disk info

Bug fixes:

• File recovery did not properly support paths longer than 260 characters
• It was impossible to cancel a long partition search operation
• F2 hotkey (re-detect) sometimes did not work
• Many other small fixes and improvements

September 9, 2011
Atola Insight Release 2.3

Enhancements:

• New disk editor replaces old disk viewer
• Significantly improved automatic head diagnostics algorithms
• Number of imaged sectors is now shown during imaging
• Insight will now automatically re-connect to the DiskSense Ethernet unit in case connection has been lost

Bug fixes:

• Reading of big firmware modules (>255 sectors) failed on certain IDE WD hard drive models
• Media scan graph glitches
• Automatic password recovery did not unlock drives when the last character of the extracted password is not 0x00
• Database issues during installation
• Case manager did not display all cases by default
• Many other fixes

June 23, 2011
Atola Insight Release 2.2

Enhancements:

• Full support for 3TB+ hard drives
• Password Extraction and Removal: added support for oldest (less than 80GB) and newest (F1, F2, F3, F4, MP4, M7 and others) Samsung hard drives
• Firmware access: added support for newest (F1, F2, F3, F4, MP4, M7 and others) Samsung hard drives
• Case management now supports shared/network database
• Media scan now supports scanning only select heads
• Automatic Diagnosis now tests each head separately during the checkup
• It is now possible to set a specific timeout for diagnostics
• Imaging: Specific rules for imaging (after X errors do Reset/Power cycle/Change direction)
• Imaging: Media map is now 50 times more compact and 20 times quicker to initialize (especially noticeable on 1-3 TB hard drives)
• Imaging: It is now possible to omit specifying SMTP server for e-mail notifications
• Imaging: Occupied sectors only option will now include sector ranges for all unknown partitions
• Imaging: It is now possible to limit the maximum block size for read operations
• Imaging: Time estimation algorithm improved
• Fill/Erase now supports Enhanced Security Erase
• Fill/Erase: Speed of Erasing with pattern on DiskSense Ethernet has been significantly improved
• File Recovery: Optimized memory usage
• File Recovery: Option to re-read a folder
• PC power saving algorithms are now disabled on the host PC during an operation
• Separate button for powering on the Target disk (for DS Ethernet users)
• Customer Experience Improvement program added to Insight

Bug fixes:

• Many bugfixes

April 21, 2011
Atola Insight Release 2.1

Enhancements:

• Files hit by bad sectors during imaging are now marked in the file recovery dialog
• 64-bit Windows OS are now fully supported
• Added industry-standard disk wipe algorithms: NIST 800-88 and DoD 5220.22-M
• Offline activation (activation from another PC)
• More reports are now saved into the case management

Bug fixes:

• "Ethernet writing" errors on DiskSense Ethernet when imaging severely damaged drives
• Many fixes in File Recovery
• Small fixes in Imager

February 18, 2011
Atola Insight Release 2.0

Enhancements:

• HFS/HFS+ support in file recovery and imager
• GPT (Guid partition table) support in file recovery and imager
• Imaging by select heads for IBM/Hitachi hard drives
• New, easier to use disk history/case management system
• It is now possible to copy a split image back to hard drive
• How-to videos accessible from the software
• File Recovery speed improvements (faster partition search, faster directory access)
• Sorting in File Recovery
• Possibility to select all files in File Search dialog
• Better handling of errors when imaging by select heads

Bug fixes:

• Automatic diagnostics sometimes stopped with "Bad PCB" diagnosis even when the PCB is fine
• File modification date on very old FAT partitions are now displayed correctly
• Insight now uses less memory when searching for partitions
• Bootcode mode issue on Maxtor drives has been fixed (loaded did not work)
• Media Scan does not fail anymore on SSD disks while working with DiskSense Ethernet unit
• Media Scan can now handle large amounts of bad sectors (there were issues on Ethernet unit)
• More than 100 other small fixes and improvements

See more information about this release with screenshots in our blog: http://blog.atola.com/atola-insight-2-0/

November 19, 2010
Atola Insight Release 1.5.1

Bug fixes:

• "Unknown case" folder is no more translated in localized versions
• Sporadic software crash while imaging by select heads
• Imaging crashed when attempting to copy only occupied sectors off a damaged Ext partition
• A few other minor fixes

November 9, 2010
Atola Insight Release 1.5.0

Enhancements:

• Added automatic password removal feature for Hitachi L9SA, B9A3 models
• File recovery engine: added support for ext2/ext3/ext4 file systems
• Imaging by select head for Western Digital hard drives
• File recovery engine: it is now possible to show/hide deleted files on FAT file systems
• Partition search speed was singificantly increased
• Imaging of only occupied sectors for ext2/ext3/ext4 partitions
• Imaging process can now be directed to specific sector by clicking the disk map
• Imaging settings redesigned
• Added option to skip writing pattern to destination media on error
• It is now possible to specify direction of imaging for each pass
• Added option to disable read-look-ahead (read cache) during imaging
• Further increase of speed of imaging
• Firmware browser now supports writing firmware modules saved by PC-3000 (WD only)
• Many other improvements

Bug fixes:

• "Ethernet writing hang-up" error when imaging
• When recovering files, the log file did not contain information about skipped files
• File recovery engine consumed a lot of memory and was slow at times
• Automatic diagnostics sometimes failed to diagnose Hitachi HDPxxxxxxGLA360 and some latest Seagate hard drives
• Many other fixes

See more information about this release with screenshots in our blog: http://blog.atola.com/new-features-in-atola-insight-1-5/

July 29, 2010
Atola Insight Release 1.4.8

Enhancements:

• Imaging by specific heads support for Seagate
• Added more explanation on Automatic Firmware Recovery tab
• Overall imaging stability and user interface improvements

June 2, 2010
Atola Insight Release 1.4.7

Enhancements:

• Full support for FAT32 and FAT16 in File Recovery and when imaging only occupied sectors
• Image writer allows writing images back to hard drives
• Insight now locates Ethernet units automatically
• Force PIO mode feature

Bug fixes:

• Read Long/Read without ECC has been improved
• Disk comparison speed improved
• Fill/Erase speed improved
• Target media now powers down only when an imaging session finishes without manual interruption
• When selecting target media, Target device now remains not powered until selected
• Device viewer: Update from file function was writing to Source media even if Target media was selected
• Copy only occupied sectors mode: It is now possible to image NTFS volumes with 1KB and 8KB sector size
• Fill or Erase: system disk is now unavailable for selection
• SHA-512 and SHA-384 algorithms provided wrong checksums when imaging more than 8 million sectors at a time
• Many other small fixes

April 22, 2010
Atola Insight Release 1.4.6

Enhancements:

• Automatic firmware update for DiskSense Ethernet
• Disk viewer now works for Target media (Ethernet version) and disks attached to the host PC
• Significant increase of imaging speed (105+ MB/sec on modern hard drives)

Bug fixes:

• Imaging was showing all sectors as errors on badly damaged drives (Ethernet version)
• Software crashes on badly damaged drives (Ethernet version)
• Sporadic unit disconnection while imaging badly damaged drives (Ethernet version)
• Ethernet unit was silently switching to PIO mode on damaged drives
• Registers display is now more accurate on (Ethernet version)
• Re-identification during Media Scan was throwing an exception
• Re-identification during Imaging sometimes caused issues
• "Ethernet Writing Hangup" bug
• Many small fixes

February 19, 2010
Atola Insight Release 1.4.4

Enhancements:

• Disk comparison engine
• Japanese localization

Bug fixes:

• Many small fixes

December 24, 2009
Atola Insight Release 1.4.3

Enhancements:

• Windows 7 support

Bug fixes:

• DiskSense Ethernet may hang when writing to Target drive
• Wrong statistics when reverse-imaging to Target drive
• No crashes anymore when run under a non-administrator account
• E-mail settings were not applied immediately when changed during imaging
• Many other fixes

November 20, 2009
Atola Insight Release 1.4.2

Enhancements:

• Hard disk manufacturer is now printed on the home screen
• E-mail notifications for imaging
• Hard drive selection screen reworked

Bug fixes:

• Fixed a number of issues when working with terminal
• When reading of public firmware map on Hitachi drivefails, Insight failed to read system firmware map
• Case selection window is now not displayed when there's only one case assigned with the drive
• When closing Insight and saving the current case and there was an error saving the case, Insight silently shut down
• There was no beep when password recovery finishes
• Numbers with commas (as separators) were not accepted
• When copying imaging log into Windows Clipboard, lines were not properly sorted
• When imaging certain drives with read errors (bad blocks), Insight was showing wrong data in Error Register (ABRT+ICRC)
• Partitions can now be found on target drive even if it was smaller than source
• When device was unidentified, certain operations silently finished without a warning
• Media map manager minor fixes
• Media recovery minor fixes
• Insight incorrectly handled the interruption of device location process
• When imaging to disk, imager stopped silently on out-of-space condition on target device
• Security erase procedure was showing an incorrect message on process interruption
• Case history now properly records security erase and fill operations
• Imager now properly logs ranges of sectors
• Switching between Ethernet and USB DiskSense units (when using both) failed occasionally
• Automatic diagnostics process now ignores current burst on HDD power on
• Backspace now properly works in Terminal
• File recovery was creating 0-byte files on out-of-space condition
• While scanning a damaged hard drive with Media Scan in "Fast" mode, DiskSense USB might get "disconnected"
• It was impossible to read/write NVRAM on Hitachi drives that failed to detect
• NVRAM is now being saved first when performing a full firmware backup
• Password recovery sometimes "extracted" wrong password off Seagate drives
• Fill/erase now correctly handles unexpected HDD power off
• Pepare Destination error log fixes
• Status and Error registers not always properly indicated hard drive status when working with DiskSense Ethernet
• DiskSense Ethernet unit hangs when scanning a Slave IDE hard drive
• Reidentification of IDE disks on DiskSense Ethernet sometimes was taking up to 20 seconds
• Crash when changing the IP address of DiskSense Ethernet in Device Selection dialog
• Wrong firmware revision is displayed when assigning case number
• Device selection: wrong focus in device list
• Security erase did not verify that the hard drive is powered on
• Crash when imaging bigger hard drive to a smaller hard drive upon reaching the end of target drive
• Many other fixes

September 30, 2009
Atola Insight Release 1.4.0

Enhancements:

• Introducing support for DiskSense Gigabit Ethernet edition
• IDE/SATA selection dialog before starting the diagnostics
• The software now does not show the device selection screen on every start
• Other minor cosmetic enhancements
  

Bug fixes:

• When COM port cannot be open, the software crashed
• File recovery engine crash in some rare cases
• On SATA WD (Marvell) hard drives, the cancellation of module read operation resulted in hard drive hang
• Rare "Cannot move files" error when assigning a new case ID
• Cancellation of HDD diagnostics process could take a long time
• Software crash on disk read error when forming a media map
• Full firmware backup on WD hard drives did not save ROM image
• When copying logs into Windows buffer, the lines were in mixed order
• Insight failed to properly recognize damaged Fujitsu hard drives
• When submitting a bugreport, e-mail address had to be reentered every time
• "Run diagnostics for selected device" checkbox did not make diagnostics actually start
• Media Scan and Imaging went nuts on very small hard drives (1000 sectors or so)
• No "operation finished" sound when firmware backup operation completes
• Show/hide log button in File Recovery
• When reading damaged module off a Hitachi drive, sometimes the next good module was also marked as bad
• Media recovery: Remap unreadable sectors didn't work properly
• Rare crash when unlocking a Seagate hard drive
• Many other fixes

August 14, 2009
Atola Insight Release 1.3.8

Enhancements:

• It is now possible to sort firmware modules in firmware browser
• Fill/Erase feature now has an error log
• HDD Firmware revision is now added to the Repository path
• When imaging to file, Insight now properly handles a situation when there is not enough free space on the destination media
  

Bug fixes:

• Fixed an issue: when imaging certain drives, random delays occurred after encountering an unreadable (bad) sector
• Fixed a delay when starting Fill or Erase routine
• Fixed an issue: Terminal did not start properly after closing the software with Terminal window minimized
• Fixed: when software improperly shuts down, sometimes it refused to start
• Minor fixes in File Browser navigation (Ctrl+Left key)
• When opening Atola Forums from the menu, Atola Insight crashed when there was no default browser properly installed
• Scrolling is now working properly in ID sector viewer
• Other fixes

July 27, 2009
Atola Insight Release 1.3.7

Enhancements:

• Atola support forum access from software (via Help menu)
• Added support for 2TB+ hard drives
• It is now possible to unlock a Seagate hard drive working in Slave mode
• Disk Viewer now displays sector numbers
• Disk Viewer can now write sectors from file to disk
• File system browser navigation improved
• Prepare destination feature moved to Device Utilities (New name: Fill or Erase)
• Security erase option has been added to Fill or Erase
• Device Configuration Overlay feature redesigned to prevent accidental disk access

Bug fixes:

• Media scan graph didn't work well on small hard drives
• Incorrect time estimation while imaging is now fixed
• CTRL+C now works correctly in Terminal
• Damaged Fujitsu drives are now properly recognized
• Driver installation issue resolved
• .img file extension now correctly added to image files during imaging
• File system browser sometimes did not properly detect partitions in a disk image
• Many other small fixes

June 17, 2009
Atola Insight Release 1.3.6

Enhancements:

• Reverse imaging
• Checksum calculation (MD5, SHA1, SHA224, SHA256, SHA384, SHA512)

Bug fixes:

• Media scan graph was slow on some platforms
• Write protection was always on when working with drives, connected directly to the PC
• When you save imaging settings, "Power down after imaging complete" option is now saved as well
• Many other small fixes

May 15, 2009
Atola Insight Release 1.3.5

Enhancements:

• New NTFS file recovery engine
• Imager: It is now possible to split big images into chunks
• Imager: Possibility to fill unreadable sectors with pre-selected pattern when writing to destination
• Imager: Possibility to save imaging settings

Bug fixes:

• Automatic firmware recovery on Toshiba hard drives is now working properly
• Password removal on Toshiba hard drives was crashing in some cases
• When an attached SATA hard drive is constantly BUSY, automatic diagnostics reported wrong results
• COM terminal did not work properly after you create a new case while it is open
• Security controls reorganized
• Many other small fixes

April 2, 2009
Atola Insight Release 1.3.3

Enhancements:

• New disk viewer
• After imaging is complete, it is now possible to export the list of unreadable sectors

Bug fixes:

• Access violation error while imaging

March 5, 2009
Atola Insight Release 1.3.2

Enhancements:

• Explanation is now displayed if an unidentified device (or empty IDE or SATA channel) selected
• Diagnostic reports and case history entries can now be printed or exported
• Lines are now highlighted in SMART viewer

Bug fixes:

• Automatic checkup crashed in some rare situations
• Several minor bugfixes in disk imager

February 14, 2009
Atola Insight Release 1.3.1

Enhancements:

• Automatic password removal now also supports Hitachi K9AT and K9SA models

Bug fixes:

• Resolved: Atola Insight may randomly crash when imaging a drive

February 12, 2009
Atola Insight Release 1.3

Enhancements:

• New Hitachi models are now supported: H9AT, H9SA, J9AT, J9SA, K9AT, K9SA
• Automatic password removal now also supports Hitachi H9AT, H9SA, J9AT, J9SA models
• Current diagrams are now included with the diagnostics report
• It is now possible to print the diagnostics report with CTRL+P key (we will add a separate button in the upcoming releases)
• It is now possible to save current diagrams into a PNG or CSV file.

Bug fixes:

• Insight did not work properly with some Hitachi G9SA drives
• "Cannot open device" when imaging an undetected hard drive
• F2 key now works properly on all screens of the program
• Other minor bugfixes

January 30, 2009
Atola Insight Release 1.2

Enhancements:

• New imager that supports multi-pass duplication, media maps, skip forward, etc
• RS-232 terminal now supports Seagate 7200.11 hard drives

Bug fixes:

• "DiskSense unit disconnected" error has been fixed (new DiskSense unit firmware released)

Please note that we are phasing out our old file recovery engine. We will be replacing it with a much easier and more powerful system.

December 4, 2008
Atola Insight Release 1.1

Enhancements:

• Imaging speed increased by an average of 5 megabytes per second
• First phase of current monitor accuracy improvement. Next version of Atola Insight will include one more fix that will make current monitor as accurate as it can get.
• New feature: disk wiping (also supports wiping hard drives attached to the system IDE/SATA controllers)
• New feature: filling disks with patterns (also supports filling hard drives attached to the system IDE/SATA controllers)
• Added descriptions for Western Digital firmware modules
• All firmware modules are now marked by color depending on their state
• Automatic module repair function for Maxtor hard drives, accessible from right-click menu on the desired module
• Module checksum recalculation/correction for Maxtor hard drives (with full automatic support for P-List length and "System Head")
• When performing full firmware backup on WD drives, a copy of ROM is also saved now
• When saving NVRAM from a Hitachi hard drive, it is now checked for consistency; Atola Insight will report if NVRAM contents appears to be invalid
• Improved support of some latest Western Digital hard drives (desktop and laptop)
• "Get map" speed improvements for latest Western Digital hard drives (desktop and laptop)
• Improved support of some laptop Samsung hard drives (LQ firmware series)
• Added support for 23 Hitachi hard drive model lines: PLA3, PLAT, ATCS, DLA3, DLAT, VLAT, DTLA, AVER, AVVA, AVVN, AVV2, ATDA, DPTA, DADA, DARA, DBCA, DCXA, DHEA, DTTA, DJNA, DJSA, DKLA, DTCA
• Possibility to view program version via Help menu
• Possibility to navigate to online program manual and submit feedback via Help menu
• Other minor improvements

Bug fixes:

• It is now impossible to launch two copies of Atola Insight at the same time
• Fixed an issue with Atola Insight imager when source drive has invalid characters in its serial number
• Fixed an issue where a SATA hard drive becomes inaccessible after interrupting an operation with firmware modules
• Fixed an issue with Automatic diagnostics where it didn't properly detect bad sectors on the media in some cases
• Fixed: file recovery engine may hang when you attempt to cancel it
• A number of other fixes

November 5, 2008
Atola Insight Release 1.0

Enhancements:

• Case Management: If the hard drive does not report a valid Serial Number, Insight will ask the Operator if they want to manually enter the Serial Number
• Case Management: Default case folder selection
• Diagnostics: Slave devices are now supported
• Interface: Write protection indicator on main form
• Write Protection is now fully functional and protecting from any write attempts, including firmware area alteration attempts and other operations that might directly or indirectly write to the firmware area.
• When viewing firmware modules, they are now always being read from disk without asking questions
• Make bad sectors routine now accepts sector ranges
• New DiskSense Interface firmware support has been added
• Short circuit indicator on main form
• When creating a Maxtor Loader, it is now possible to change the output filename
• Slave device detection has been improved
• Re-identification has been improved
• Lots of other cosmetic enhancements
  

Major bugfixes:

• Canceled diagnostics was not restarting upon request
• Program freezes when working with IDE Samsung hard drives attached as a Slave device
• Diagnostics: checking damaged filesystems sometimes lead to Program Exception
• Make Bad Sector and Media Recovery: several bugfixes
• Serial port: did not work properly on some platforms
• Case Management: Losing case history when closing Atola Insight while case ID is not properly assigned
• Canceling a firmware map importing operation was destroying previously loaded firmware map
• Installer fixes
• Lots of other fixes
  

October 13, 2008
Atola Insight Beta 0.9

Enhancements:

• Revised the process of MS SQL server installation
• Automatic port switching (IDE/SATA) during HDD reidentification
• Atola Insight now checks if the hard drive was replaced and asks to start a new case if it was replaced
• Maxtor: loader building capability
• Maxtor: module checksum recalculation
• Maxtor: possibility to write a clean G-List, P-List, DMCS modules
• Maxtor: firmware read speed increased significantly
• Imaging: default value of "maximum number of consecutive power cycles" reduced to 2
  

Major bugfixes:

• Crash during automatic checkup in some cases
• Media Map and Disk Viewer: sometimes software hangs when accessing sectors beyond LBA28 range
• Media Map: Custom range filter is fixed
• Imaging: when source is re-powered, it was falling back to PIO mode
• Fixed typos/improper wording in the interface
  

September 15, 2008
Atola Insight Beta 0.85

Enhancements:

• New feature: Media Map support (accessible within Image/Duplicate dialog), also called "Copy Map" feature
  

Major bugfixes:

• #56 Running on Windows Vista as non-administrator caused issues with Atola IDE driver and Imaging/Duplication
• #58 Reverse imaging to a file, Imaging hangs while creating empty file
• #54 When scanning in Fast mode, Atola Insight crashes upon reaching the end of the surface
  

September 1, 2008
Atola Insight Beta 0.8

Enhancements:

• Support of Windows Vista OS (32-bit only at this time)
• Additional fields are stored into the database during firmware backup: Maxtor's ROM CRC, Maxtor's "Model", and Hitachi's microcode revision. This is useful for locating a firmware in the database.
• Read/Write ROM on Western Digital drives with Marvell CPU.
• When reading NVRAM on Hitachi hard drives, its header is now validated and issues are reported
• Firmware map import feature added for Maxtor, WD and Samsung.
• Reverse and fast options for media scan
• Error reporting improved; customers can now leave comments when program crashes.
• Stability improvements and bug fixes for DiskSense firmware.
• Firmware updater for DiskSense is now included
  

Major bugfixes:

• #40: Entry point 'PatchNVRAM_DisableFWAccess' was not found in 'SuperLib.dll' when removing password on Hitachi
• #44: Imaging: copy to destination with the exact same size triggers error
• #46: Imaging: when choosing destination disk PInvoke's Access Violation sometimes occurs
• #36: Disk locked with Maximum security level was reported as locked with High security level
  

July 1, 2008
Atola Insight Beta 0.7
Initial beta release