Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!maytag!aftermath!water!ljdickey From: ljdickey@water.waterloo.edu (L.J.Dickey) Subject: Re: Hard Drives with Removable Media Message-ID: <1990Aug25.193213.15875@water.waterloo.edu> Organization: University of Waterloo References: <1990Aug4.130418.16370@wam.umd.edu> <2361@laura.UUCP> <1990Aug17.083850@heike.informatik.uni-dortmund.de> <29349@unix.cis.pitt.edu> Date: Sat, 25 Aug 90 19:32:13 GMT Lines: 17 In article <29349@unix.cis.pitt.edu> jimmy@unix.cis.pitt.edu (James G Tauberg) writes: | There has been talk that with the Megafile 44 one can not swap disks | with different size partitions without a reboot. | | I do not know if this is true, nor do I know the solution... | | I can tell you this, I have a SyQuest mechanism connected to my ST with | an ICD Advantage Plus host adapter. With the ICD BOOT software I am | able to swap disks with different partition sizes... no problem. At the show held in Toronto earlier this year, the Canadian importer of ICD products mentioned this as a nice feature of the ICD adapter. He said it more bluntly, (and maybe incorrectly): that changing disks in a drive connected with the competitors adaptor would cause the system to crash.