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From: csbrod@immd4.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Claus Brod)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st,comp.sys.atari.st.tech
Subject: Re: Weird TT hard disk thingy
Message-ID: <1991May1.165955.5466@informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
Date: 1 May 91 16:59:55 GMT
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apratt@atari.UUCP (Allan Pratt) writes:

>As for the ST/TT side of the bus, you have to start with zero on each bus
>and increment by one for each drive you connect to that bus.  (Remember,
>that's unit numbers as the computer sees them, not as the adaptor sees the
>disk it's actually talking to.)  The reasons for this are kind of involved,
>and I don't want to go into them; just take my word for it and carry on.

Pity. I would really like to know more about the reason everything
has to start from zero.

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