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From: hase@netmbx.UUCP (Hartmut Semken)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: IBM hard disk controllers to ST DMA - possible?
Keywords: dma,hard disk
Message-ID: <477@netmbx.UUCP>
Date: 11 Apr 90 13:02:29 GMT
References: <1990Apr6.114314.4136@cns.umist.ac.uk>
Reply-To: hase@netmbx.UUCP (Hartmut Semken)
Organization: netmbx, Berlin, West Germany
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In article <1990Apr6.114314.4136@cns.umist.ac.uk> ran@cns.umist.ac.uk (Bob Nutter) writes:
>Has anyone out there managed to connect an IBM-type hard drive to an
>ST via the DMA port using a modified IBM controller?

Yes.

It is possible - and pretty cheap - to connect an OMTI controller for
the XT to the DMA Port.

But it's incompatible to everything: the DMA Port is blocked by this
thing, and it needs a special driver to run which is availeble only for
TOS (rumor has it that a minix-ST version is availeble too; rumor has
it, that rumor is just rumor...)

Well, if You can afford it: go for SCSI: SCSI devices will be usable in
the future, the SCSI host adaptors for the ST are more or less
compatible to the SHxxxes etc.

hase
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