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From: paulm@unix.UUCP (Owner and User)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech
Subject: Re: The inevitable hard disk question.
Summary: I did it with discs and tapes
Keywords: hard disk sh204 scsi megabytes
Message-ID: <111@unix.UUCP>
Date: 23 Jan 91 19:02:36 GMT
References: <4677@mcrware.UUCP> <1991Jan21.115857.18617@informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
Organization: PLM BBS, Orange, CA
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In article <1991Jan21.115857.18617@informatik.uni-erlangen.de>, csbrod@informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Claus Brod (turo)) writes:
> ric@mcrware.UUCP (Ric Yeates) writes:
> 
> >    ? What SCSI ID should the drive be set to?
> The SH204 auto-selects target 0 when being switched on and never
> releases it. So you have to use SCSI ID 0 on the drive.
> 
> >    ? Does anybody have any experience with doing this? What drive did they
> >      use? Software?
> Some people reported to have accomplished such a thing. I recall one letter
> when someone told me of a working combination of a SH204 host adaptor and
> a Quantum drive. This was done using my own hard disk driver software.
> I never tested this myself, however.
> 

   I am using 2 SH204 connected to my ST, one addressed at 0 for the disc,
   and the other addressed at 2 for my SCSI cartridge tape drive.   The
   SH204 host adapter boards will only access SCSI device 0 (it's in the
   hardware) but with little work, the ACSI (DMA port address) can be changed
   anywhere from 0 to 7.   The disc interface board is talking to a Maxtor
   380 meg XT-4380-S SCSI drive, and the tape is a CYPHER CT-540 SCSI 5.25
   inch cartridge tape drive.  I use the Supra v 2.06 (I think?) driver
   with the controller and drive defined as 'other'.  The tape driver is
   code that I wrote that installs itself as a TSR attatched to BIOS trap
   13 RWABS calls.  I wrote a unix like TAR program that I use to perform
   backup , restores as well as file transfers from my ST to UNIX system
   and vise-versa.   I believe you need the 'new' SH204 adapter PAL's tho.
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Paul Moreau

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