___________________________________________________________________________ System Commander Deluxe Version 4.01 Maintenance Release Notes (c) V Communications ___________________________________________________________________________ Topics: Installing the upgrade over v4.00 New features/changes Bugs corrected Known product incompatibilities Installing the upgrade over v4.0 ---------------------------------- The download/diskette upgrade will update your currently installed System Commander Deluxe, while retaining any options and changes you may have made. You must have the following items to perform the upgrade: * Your original v4.00 Disk 1 (no changes are made to it) * A blank formatted diskette to make a new Restart Disk 2 * System Commander Deluxe v4.00 must already be installed (but does not need to be enabled). * The upgrade file SD401_US.EXE To perform the upgrade, run SD401_US.EXE from a DOS prompt or the Run command of Windows 95/98. New features/changes -------------------- 1) Adds support for large drives greater than 8.4 GB. 2) Adds support for EBIOS partition types C and E. 3) New EZ-Drive support (EZ-Drive versions v8 or later). 4) New Unicore LBA Pro Card support. 5) Add support for BeOS, Btron 1B, and JexeOS operating systems. 6) Adds more OS Wizard NT installation choices. 7) Improved SCOUT diagnostics for detecting addition problems and support for large drives. 8) Improved compatibility with Norton Utilities v3 Speed Disk on FAT-32 partitions. 9) Improved compatibility with other partitioning products when they resize the partition System Commander is installed in. 10) Installation automatically detects VGA cards that are not 100% PC compatible and reverts to text mode (some MediaGX systems). 11) New Global menu option to provide an alternate OS Wizard startup process for rare systems that are not 100% PC compatible. Bugs corrected - Installation ----------------------------- 1) When using the compressed disk option (very rare), the System Commander installation now copies every file needed. 2) System Commander now prevents a second installation into another partition, unless the original installation is removed. This reduces user confusion as to which installation is active. Bugs corrected - Boot time issues --------------------------------- 1) All Windows 95 installations are properly identified as Windows 95. Previously, some non-standard Windows 95 installations appeared with the name "Windows 98". 2) The optional RENAME feature under File Management now performs a rename both when going into the OS and reverses the rename when another OS is selected. Previously, the reverse rename did not occur. 3) The label of the MultiFAT partition can be changed without causing System Commander to detect a possible new OS. 4) For the MultiFAT partition only, the AUTOEXEC.BAT or CONFIG.SYS copies will work even if no cluster is assigned to the files. This damaged file configuration may be created under rare cases by the Windows 95 OEM setup program. This damaged file case resulted in a System Commander changing the drive label and may alter several filenames in the root directory. 5) System Commander will now tolerate a damaged partition table with two extended partitions. A drive should never have two extended partitions. 6) Partition information screen always show detail information for each partition selected. Previously, in rare cases, a logical partition would show no detail information. Bugs corrected - OS Wizard and Partitioning ------------------------------------------- 1) OS Wizard now checks if a old version of SCO unix is to be installed and makes sure a valid partition space is available. 2) Cancelling the FAT conversion before it is started no longer shows a disk I/O error. 3) No longer allows a FAT-32 partition to be used for a new OS/2 installation (OS/2 is not FAT-32 compatible). 4) The extended attributes are updated when a OS/2 partition is resized. Previously, the extended attributes were not updated, causing the loss of long filenames. 5) Unix boot records are always preserved. With the prior release, under some situations, the OS Wizard would incorrectly alter the unix boot record. Installing a new Unix boot record always corrects the problem. Known product incompatibilities - Some Disk Manager configurations ------------------------------------------------------------------ Micohouse's EZ-Drive, old versions - Version 8 and later are compatible. System Commander checks for EZ-Drive and if detected, performs a EZ-Drive version independent test to see if EZ-Drive will allow System Commander. SPExports - This is a rarely used older disk manager. This program is automatically detected during installation, and prevents System Commander from installing. On-Track's Disk Manager in one rare scenario - Normally a user has Disk Manager to support a new large drive on an older non-LBA system. If the system has a smaller than 504 MB drive as the first IDE drive, Disk Manager will not allow System Commander to install. All other configurations of Disk Manager are compatible with System Commander. FWB Drive UP's optional disk manager - Although not verified, the latest information we have is the disk manager portion, if installed, will not be compatible with System Commander. The optional disk manager is only installed on older systems that do not have LBA support. If you install System Commander with this configuration, the system will not boot up. Boot from our Disk 1, and perform a Disable to restore FWB's disk manager.