Atola Insight: Main Window
This page provides information on basic Atola Insight controls.
1. Back and Forward buttons
These buttons allow you to go to the previous screen of the program. This may be useful if you'd like to see your previous input or quickly restart some process.
2. Main menu
You use this menu to navigate through different parts of the software.
3. Case
This panel shows the current case number and allows performing operations on cases, for example assigning a case number, open and merge cases, create a new case, etc:
4. Current port and device
This panel shows the currently selected port (SATA, IDE Master, IDE Slave) and the model number of the device you work with.
5. Device controls
This menu allows performing the following operations:
- Reset sends "Soft Reset" command to the hard drive
- Re-identify is used when you replace the hard drive (please see Attaching and detaching hard drives for more information)
- Spindown stops the hard drive's spindle motor
- Select another allows selecting another hard drive even if it cannot be identified (please see Attaching and detaching hard drives for more information)
6. Windows
This menu is used to open the Current Oscilloscope and Terminal windows. It also allows enableing DiskSense controls and IDE/SATA registers (in case you have previously closed them).
7. Selected device information
This panel shows the detailed information about currently attached device. If you'd like to see even more details, click View ID Sector link and you will see the full ID sector that was returned by the hard drive.
8. Case history
Here you can see all actions that were done to the currently attached hard drive. If you'd like to get full details on an action, just click on it and Atola Insight will show you the detailed log of that action.
9. Favorite Actions
This panel is still under development, but eventually it will display the tasks that you perform most often, thus allowing you to perform those actions quicker.
10. Write protection
This indicator shows whether write protection is enabled or not. Write protection can be enabled or disabled by triggering a switch on the left side of the DiskSense unit. Enabling write protection prevents any action that may result in a write operation.
11. Status and Error registers
This panel displays raw contents of Status and Error ATA registers in real time.
12. Power On button
This button allows you to manually apply power to the hard drive attached to the DiskSense unit. An alternative way to apply power is to press Power On button on the DiskSense unit itself:
13. Power Off button
This button allows you to manually power down the hard drive attached to the DiskSense unit. An alternative way to power down the hard drive is to press Power Off button on the DiskSense unit itself:
14. Power Cycle button
This button allows you to re-power the hard drive (power down and then power up).
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