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From: paulm@ccicpg.UUCP (tmp Paul Moreau usenet acct)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Help with HD for ST
Summary: TOS 1.4 and 32 meg partitions
Message-ID: <39993@ccicpg.UUCP>
Date: 18 Sep 89 12:49:44 GMT
References: <2444@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU>
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Organization: ICL North America (Business Systems), Irvine, CA.
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     Hi,
     I just put a MAXTOR EXT-4380 380 megabyte ESDI drive with an
     Emulex MD21/S2 controller on my system.   The previous drive
     was a WREN 85 meg SASI using a Xebec 1410A controller.    After
     much trouble trying to get the drive to autoboot (using SUPRA
     V2.6 ?  forrmatter and driver)  I finally started remembered 
     an artical posted (years?) ago about removing the reset line going
     to the controller.   That did it!   I guess that the Atari BIOS
     tries just 1 read to determind if there's a drive out there or
     not, and acording to the SCSI spec, a drive will give a 'Check
     Status' condition upon the first read/write attempt after the reset
     has been asserted.    Well so much for that, the reason I'm posting
     this is that I also put TOS 1.4 into my system (well worth it!).
     Well the TOS 1.0 would only allow 16 meg partions and I understand
     that TOS 1.4 will allow 32 megs.  Using the old formatter only lets
     me use ~160 megs of the drive.   Is there any (PD ?) utilities out
     there that will let me re-initialize me drive to let me use 32 meg
     partitions ??
     Well THANX in advance.

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