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From: ONM07@DMSWWU1A.BITNET (Julian F. Reschke)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st,comp.sys.atari.st.tech
Subject: Re: Weird TT hard disk thingy
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Date: 7 May 91 10:35:46 GMT
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In article <42051@cup.portal.com>, Dave_Ninjajr_Flory@cup.portal.com says:
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>My understanding is that the ST will read ID numbers from the lowest one to
>the highest, and it doesn't matter if some are skipped. The TT reads from 0

Wrong. The limititation is not in the BIOS, but in AHDI. The BIOS boots
from the first drive with an executable root sector (the TT takes the
SCSI drives first). But AHDI only looks for devices starting at #0 in
sequential order.

>up in SEQUENTIAL order. If you skip a number the others are invisible. If

>your TT doesn't have an internal HD then the ID 1 drive would act as you
>described and changing it to 0 would be the fix. Does this make sense or
>am I all wet? (I don't have a TT so I don't know if the manual says this. I
>picked it up somewhere, on GEnie maybe.)
>
>DAVE FLORY
>Dave_Ninjajr_Flory@cup.portal.com
>D.FLORY,  A.L.E.R.T. Sys*Cop on GEnie
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