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December 21, 2022
Visual SCSI Explorer version 2.9 is available for purchasing and download.
More information about new release can be found in release notes document.
The release notes document is located on
download page.
May 23, 2021
Visual SCSI Explorer version 2.9 is being prepared for release.
The release is planned on 4th quarter of 2021 year.
It will include the following major features:
- Integration of service procedures into test procedures as test modules.
- New service procedures for direct and sequential access devices.
- Limited support of SCSI Enclosure Services (SES) commands and parameters.
- New commands and parameters for supported device types.
- Improved diagnostic of SCSI errors.
- Other improvements and bug fixes.
March 31, 2021
Virtual Storage Device Emulator version 1.3 is available for purchasing.
Trial version of the product is available on request.
More information about new release can be found in release notes document.
The release notes document is located on
download page.
January 15, 2021
Virtual Storage Device Emulator version 1.3 is being prepared for release.
The release is planned on 1st quarter of 2021 year.
It will include the following major features:
- Emulation of processor device.
- Emulation of multi-media device (CD/DVD/BD disk drive).
- Command line user interface (CLI) support.
- Rework of management console user interface (GUI).
- Support of SCSI parallel interface (SPI).
- Improvements and bug fixes.
October 13, 2020
Visual SCSI Explorer version 2.8 is available for purchasing and download.
New features: Windows Server 2019 support. Disk: Prevent Allow Medium
Removal (1Eh) command. Media changer: Exchange Medium (A6h) command, TapeAlert
Supported Flags (B2h) VPD page, Extended Device Capabilities (1Fh/41h) mode page.
Tape drive: Logical Block Protection (B5h) VPD page. Multi-media: Mechanism
Status (BDh) command, Load/Unload Medium (A6h) command, Read Disc Structure
(ADh) command, Read Format Capacities (23h), Format Unit (04h) command, Read
CD (BEh) command, Read CD MSF (B9h) command. Processor: Receive (08h) command,
Send (0Ah) command. Shared commands: Release (6) (17h) command, Reserve (6) (16h)
command, Release (10) (57h) command, Reserve (10) (56h) command.
Improvements: More correct parsing of received mode data in case when mode data
are present in the buffer only partially. Printing of log parameter names in
device log for known log parameters. Printing of log parameter values in
device log for media changer log parameters. Support of variable length binary
attribute value for Write Attribute (8Dh) SCSI command. Option "Allow SCSI
commands for all device types" allows execution of device type specific
commands for all device types. Printing of ASCII and TEXT medium auxiliary
memory attribute values in binary form in device log window. Save Disk Image
service procedure can save CD/DVD/BD medium image for multi-media device.
Showing the percentage of completness in Disk LBA Map Test service procedure.
For Disk Performance Test, Disk Read Test, Disk Write Test, and Disk LBA Map
Test service procedures zero number of blocks per transfer is translated into
optimal value. The startup script feature has been removed permanently as
potentially dangerous.
Bug fixes: Problem with incorrect data buffer alignment when SCSI command
transfers data to/from device. New device object name and other parameters
are not recognized during "refresh hardware" operation. Failure in hardware
management service during adapter enumeration when SCSI ports numbers are
not sequential. SCSI Chip Test service procedure stops on first read/write
error instead of counting errors and continue.
May 3, 2020
Virtual Storage Device Emulator version 1.2 is available.
Trial version of the product is available on request.
New features: Windows Server 2019 support, iSCSI transport support,
support of Rigid Disk Device Geometry (04h) mode page for disk devices,
support of Flexible Disk (05h) mode page for disk devices,
support of Prevent Allow Medium Removal (1Eh) command support for disk devices,
emulation of sequential access device (tape drive),
emulation of media changer device.
May 12, 2019
Virtual Storage Device Emulator product is being prepared for release.
New release will include the following major features:
- Supported device types: Direct access device (hard disk, optical memory), sequential access device (tape), media changer (library).
- Virtual tape library (VTL) support.
- iSCSI protocol support.
March 9, 2019
Visual SCSI Explorer version 2.7 is available for purchasing and download.
New features: Changer management interactive tool, Disk block editor
interactive tool, Disk Bad Block Scan service procedure, Save Disk Logical
Blocks service procedure, Restore Disk Logical Blocks service procedure,
Clear Device Logs service procedure, support of Control Data Protection
(0Ah/F0h) mode page for tape drive (SSC) device, support of Device
Configuration Extension (10h/01h) mode page for tape drive (SSC) device,
support of Informational Exceptions Control (1Ch) mode page for tape drive
(SSC) device.
Improvements and bug fixes: insert/overwrite (INS/OVR) edit mode indicator
on main window status bar, Support of Error History buffer mode for Read
Buffer (10) (3Ch) SCSI command, Support of Cache bit for Read Attribute
(8Ch) SCSI command, support of Write-through cache (WTC) and zero attribute
length for Write Attribute (8Dh) SCSI command, binary edit control supports
selection and undo edit operations.
January 28, 2018
Visual SCSI Explorer version 2.6 is available for purchasing and download.
New features include test procedures and full tape drive command set (SSC-4) support.
Improvements and bug fixes.
October 4, 2017
SCSI Pass Through JNI Helper version 1.5 software package is available
for download. Support of Linux operating system platform is added.
July 29, 2017
Chobik SCSI Programming Interface version 1.0 is available for purchase.
The demonstration version of the product is available for download.
The trial version of the product is available upon request.
August 8, 2016
Virtual Storage Device Emulator version 1.0 is available for purchase. The demonstration
version of the product is available for download. The trial version of the product
is available upon request.
November 15, 2015
Visual SCSI Explorer version 2.5 is available for purchase. The demonstration version of the product is available for download. The trial version of the product is available upon request.
July 14, 2015
Visual SCSI Explorer version 2.4 is available for purchase. The demonstration version of the product is available for download. The trial version of the product is available upon request.
March 2, 2015
The version 1.3 of SCSI Pass Through JNI software package is available for download. The distribution file includes binary modules as well as compiled MSI-files. The package source code is also available for download.
October 29, 2014
Visual SCSI Explorer version 2.3 is available for purchase. The demonstration version of the product is available for download. The trial version of the product is available upon request.
September 25, 2014
Visual SCSI Explorer version 2.2 is available for purchase. The demonstration version of the product is available for download. The trial version of the product is available upon request.
February 14, 2013
SCSI CLI for ASPI version 1.3 is available for purchase. The trial version of the product is available for download on request.
August 13, 2012
Visual SCSI Explorer version 2.1 is available for purchase. The demonstration version of the product is available for download. The trial version of the product is available upon request.
December 5, 2011
SCSI CLI for ASPI version 1.2 is available for purchase. The trial version of the product is available for download on request.
September 12, 2011
Visual SCSI Explorer version 2.0 is available.
October 21, 2008
Visual SCSI Explorer version 2.0 is being prepared for release.
January 07, 2008
Visual SCSI Explorer version 1.4 is available.
January 04, 2007
Visual SCSI Explorer version 1.4 is being prepared for release.
October 26, 2006
Visual SCSI Explorer version 1.3 is available.
August 14, 2006
Visual SCSI Explorer version 1.3 is being prepared for release.
April 11, 2006
Visual SCSI Explorer version 1.2 is available.
October 19, 2005
The version 1.2 of SCSI Pass Through JNI software package is available for download.