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From: boyd@bind.cs.fsu.edu (Mickey Boyd)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st,comp.sys.atari.st.tech
Subject: Re: Weird TT hard disk thingy
Message-ID: <1991Apr17.011921.8599@mailer.cc.fsu.edu>
Date: 17 Apr 91 05:19:21 GMT
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In article <1991Apr16.195300.1906@jato.jpl.nasa.gov>, hyc@hanauma.jpl.nasa.gov (Howard Chu) writes:
>In article <1991Apr16.042133.20872@mailer.cc.fsu.edu> boyd@nu.cs.fsu.edu writes:
>>My friend managed to get his external Supra HD connected to his TT
>>(which has an internal SCSI device).  The TT differentiates between
>>SCSI and ASCI devices.  The internal drive is set at SCSI 0, so my   
>>friend set his Supra at SCSI 1, so they would not confict.  This 
>>turned out to be the problem.  BOTH drives had to be set to SCSI 0 
>>to work.  Extremely weird.  Anyone have an explination? 
>
>What did he plug the Supra into, daisy chained off the SCSI port, or
>the Atari DMA port? If DMA port, then the answer is that you're using two
>separate buses...
>-- 
He plugged it into the DMA.  However, if it is a separate bus, then it 
was the only device on it.  So why does the Atari software demand that 
it be device 0?  That is what puzzles me.  

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