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From: VBRANDT@DBNUAMA1.BITNET
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Subject: ICD driver (was: Hard Drive add-ons and net professionalism)
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Date: 24 Nov 89 08:04:50 GMT
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In Info-Atari16 Digest #663, JOHNBARNES@ENH.NIST.GOV said:

>3) I am under the impression that ICD's formatting software looks for an
>   ICD clock at SCSI unit 6 on the bus, a feature that is unique to ICD's
>   host adapters.  Tom Harker told me that this is why they are so
>   generous in passing out their software, since only owners of ICD host
>   adapters can use it.

   Generous? Hah!  I wrote them, asking a few tech questions and asked for an
update.  Nothing returned, except their new catalog. :-(  Tom Harker told me
in February (at CeBIT in Hannover) that they'd be in Usenet soon ...

   I asked around here on the net, but noone would/could send me a copy. A
well-meaning netter informed me that ICD restricts distribution of new drivers
to GEnie, Compu$erve and their own BBS.  He told me that in his opinion, the
software was worth the d/l fee.  I estimate d/l costs from Germany to be about
$90, so I didn't follow his advice. :-)  Unfortunately, I couldn't get email
back to him. The German distributor for ICD, Herr Weide in Hilden, W.Germany
employs a bunch of idiots who don't know a hard disk from a hard hat (no smile
here).

   Strangely enough, there's an old version of that same software freely avail-
able on one of the non-BITNET servers (forgot which one).


>4). The ICD formatting software from ver 4.xxx up is much more user-
>     friendly than previous versions and is highly to be recommended.  I
>     think that new drives can still be added, but I am not sure of this.
>     The version 4.2 ICBDBOOT program also aoffers significant advantages
>     with built-in caching and a fix for the 40-folder problem.

   That's why I want it.  Will I ever get it?   (Dramatic music, then silence.)

   :-}

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