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From: jensting@skinfaxe.diku.dk (Jens Tingleff)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech
Subject: Re: Using standard Hard drives with an Atari
Keywords: ibm hard drive, ST
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Date: 24 Jul 90 08:41:53 GMT
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n8542614@unicorn.WWU.EDU (Keith Bunting) writes:


>The summary sez it all: what does one have to do to get
>a standard ibm hard drive to work on an Atari ST???

Either
	-1 Build an interface to take a PC controler card; install
	   a lot of weird, non-compatible, software; modify ROMS 
	  (for autoboot).
or
	-2 Buy a SCSI interface (or build...) to connect the ST to a 
	   SCSI drive. Next buy a SCSI interface that fits onto the
	   PC drive. This can use compatible ST software, autoboot, etc.

If you don't have the PC hard disk yet, you might just buy a SCSI drive
to start with.. . Anyway, the first solution is quite a lot of trouble.. .

	Jens
Jens Tingleff MSc EE, Institute of Computer Science, Copenhagen University
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