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From: awb@aipna.ed.ac.uk (Alan W Black)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Harddisks for Atari STE
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Date: 19 Aug 90 14:57:12 GMT
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Hi,

I have an STE with 4Meg but currently no harddisk.  I reckon
the time has come to take the plunge and get some harddisk.
I almost exclusively run MINIX rather than TOS so it is important
that the drive runs under MINIX.  Also I do not intended to buy a 
real ATARI harddisk as they seem too expensive.

Can anyone tell me of any restrictions that I should be aware of ?
There seem to be a number of 50M SCSI drives available for around 450
pounds that look suitable.  I suppose that the worst case is that 
I have to write a device driver for it or is it the case that some
drives are totally unsuitable for MINIX (seems unlikely).

So if you run a non-atari harddrive with minix I'd be grateful if you
would let me know you're experiences.  I'll summarise any feedback 
I get.

Many thanks

Alan

Alan W Black                          80 South Bridge, Edinburgh, UK
Dept of Artificial Intelligence       tel: (+44) -31 225 7774 x228 or x223
University of Edinburgh               email: awb@ed.ac.uk