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From: ljdickey@water.waterloo.edu (L.J.Dickey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: SCSI controler...
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Date: 20 Mar 90 12:37:30 GMT
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In article <11434@stag.math.lsa.umich.edu> hyc@math.lsa.umich.edu (Howard Chu) writes:
>Just an offhand question - do either of these cards allow the DMA system
>to continue to function if the attached SCSI bus is powered off? My old
>Supra card did, but my current one (smoked the old one - oops!) doesn't.
>(So if the hard drive is plugged in but turned off, the floppy drive is
>no longer usable.)

I can turn off the power switch on my ICD FA*ST drive and then boot the
Mega ST2 from the floppy.  Several times I have installed accessories
on the C drive and/or programs in C:\AUTO that did not get along with
things I already had there.  One recent problem was infinite looping.
It was easy to solve the problem...  Turn off the HD, re-boot from any
suitable floppy, (even a blank one), pop in the ICD boot disk, then
install the C: icon.  At that stage I could remove the offending
accessory or program.

>Does the ICD card support enough of the SCSI command set to plug in
>exabyte tape drives or SCSI ethernet boards?

Dunno.  I hope yes. 

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