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From: woju@mist.sub.org (Wolfgang Jung)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech
Subject: Re: Atari megafile expansion
Summary: how is it done?
Message-ID: <A0awf5lm@mist.sub.org>
Date: 20 Nov 90 15:56:00 GMT
References: <1990Nov17.195344.22424@watdragon.waterloo.edu>
Reply-To: woju@mist.sub.org
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Organization: The Mystic System in Berlin 26
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X-Version: Martin's Mailer Version Oct 29 1990 21:00:12

In <1990Nov17.195344.22424@watdragon.waterloo.edu>, Steven W. Klassen writes:
-<I have an Atari Megafile 60 which is filling up fast.  It is possible
-<to expand this without shelling out all the money for a second
-<megafile 60?  Specifically, can I simply add another drive to the
-<interface in my current Megafile?
-<
-<Here are the details:
-<- my drive has the number SEA{something} on the back.  Someone told
-<  me once that this meant it was a Seagate drive.
-<- ratehd tells me that the adapter is an Adaptek {something}
-<
-<I know that I could expand things by purchasing another megafile and
-<chaining it onto the DMA, but is it possible to expand the one I've
-<got now, say from 60 meg to 120 meg, by adding another drive 
-<mechanism to the current controller?  Physically there seems to be
-<lots of room in the megafile box.

It is possible, but you have to do several things with the Controler-
board ! But I don't know, what you have to do... 

But it is possible..

please notify me, too, when you get more Information..

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(c) by Wolfgang Jung, Berlin (date look at header !!)