Xref: utzoo comp.sys.atari.st:38006 comp.sys.atari.st.tech:2309 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!csus.edu!ucdavis!csusac!csuchico.edu!ekrimen From: ekrimen@ecst.csuchico.edu (Ed Krimen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st,comp.sys.atari.st.tech Subject: Re: Using ST hard disks on TT's Keywords: Supra, ICD, partitions Message-ID: <1991May08.032743.15031@ecst.csuchico.edu> Date: 8 May 91 03:27:43 GMT References: <2928@atari.UUCP> Sender: news@ecst.csuchico.edu (USENET) Organization: California State University, Chico Lines: 17 In article <2928@atari.UUCP> apratt@atari.UUCP (Allan Pratt) writes: >Supra (and ICD?) use tricks that we don't use to get more than four >partitions on a drive. We use a different trick. When you attach a >drive with more than four partitions to a TT, you are using the hard-disk >driver from Atari which is on the TT's internal hard disk, not the driver >that understands Supra's trick. > >Since these drivers probably don't work on TT's and certainly don't know >about the TT's SCSI port, you are stuck. I think I heard that version 5 of ICD's software works on the TT. Can anyone confirm of deny this claim? -- ||| Ed Krimen [ekrimen@ecst.csuchico.edu or al661@cleveland.freenet.edu] ||| Video Production Major, California State University, Chico / | \ SysOp, Fuji BBS: 916-894-1261