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From: hase@netmbx.UUCP (Hartmut Semken)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Megafile-30
Message-ID: <3356@netmbx.UUCP>
Date: 2 Sep 89 14:14:57 GMT
References: <1244@ttds.UUCP>
Reply-To: hase@netmbx.UUCP (Hartmut Semken)
Organization: netmbx Public Access Unix, Berlin, West Germany
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In article <1244@ttds.UUCP> perand@ttds.UUCP (Per Andersson) writes:
>I just bought a Megafile-30 yesterday, and now I am getting curious. What
>is really inside this box ? Can I put another drive inside it ?

The SH205 and Megafile 30s I've seen have a 5,25 inch drive inside (or a
3,5 inch drive with 5,25 mounting adaptor).

The SH205 can handle 2 drives. Just add a new power supply, cables and
one 20 pin connector (the pads are there, on the board, the data
connector for the second drive isnt...).

There is new software necessary to handle 2 drives. I think, the ICD
software will work with the SH205/Megafile.

The Megafile is essentially a SH205 modified to use RLL encoding instead
of MFM, but I have seen one Megafile 30 with an SCSI host adaptor and an
30 Meg SCSI mechanism.

hase
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