CONTENTS
SCSI Inspector V1.0

By Michael A. Uman

Program Overview

Description

Application

Credits

Program Operation

Menus

Dialogs

Keyboard shortcuts

Reference


OVERVIEW
Program Overview

SCSI Inspector is a tool designed to allow users to view the contents of their SCSI drives in a block oriented manner. This allows a user to read information from the disk without the drive being mounted in the operating system. SCSI Inspector can be used on any PC which has a SCSI interface which supports the WINASPI standard from Adaptec.

SCSI Inspector can read hard-drives, CD-ROMS, Worm drives, removable media devices. It is essential that the system have WINASPI installed on the machine or SCSI Inspector will not function.

SCSI Inspector was written as an exercise and a developmental tool in the development of a new product at Azeena. A version has been made available in the Shareware market. The full product contains many enhancements on the Shareware version.


Description

SCSI Inspector is a Windows 3.1 compatible executable file designed to be run on PC Compatible hardware configured with a SCSI Controller card which supports a WINASPI DLL. It should not require much memory so a minimal 4MB machine should work fine.


Application

SCSI Inspector is designed to be used as a tool to navigate a SCSI device. Basically the user selects a certain host adapter, a certain SCSI LUN, and a block to read. The block is then displayed in a MDI window in the application. Multiple windows and multiple views can be open simultaneously.

SCSI Inspector contains various routines which help decode the information in the blocks. Routines for interpreting the BIOS Parameter Block, the Partition Table, and Directory Block are included in the Shareware version.