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From: apratt@atari.UUCP (Allan Pratt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st,comp.sys.atari.st.tech
Subject: Re: Weird TT hard disk thingy
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Date: 3 May 91 18:09:56 GMT
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boyd@nu.cs.fsu.edu (Mickey Boyd) writes:
>The DMA port on the back of the TT 
>is handled differently than that on the various ST's, and this could cause
>an hard drive set up (and working) on an ST to fail (with very little 
>explanation from the Atari HD software).   

A phrase like "The DMA port on the back of the TT" encourages
misunderstanding: there are TWO DMA ports on the back of the TT; one is
ACSI and one is SCSI, and you should make that distinction explicit when
you talk about the TT.

In any case, you are mistaken.  A working setup on an ST will work fine on
a TT.  What part of this conversation makes you think it won't?  The only
oddity will be that SCSI drives (like the internal one), if present, will
have their partitions appear first in the sequence of drive letters.  But
if you have a working chain of drives coming out of your ST, and you unplug
the end of the chain from the ST and plug it into the TT, all those drives
will be accessible and will work just fine.

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