Xref: utzoo comp.sys.atari.st:38052 comp.sys.atari.st.tech:2331 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!caen!ox.com!yale!quasi-eli!cs.yale.edu!cs.yale.edu!fischer-michael From: fischer-michael@cs.yale.edu (Michael Fischer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st,comp.sys.atari.st.tech Subject: Re: Weird TT hard disk thingy Message-ID: <1991May9.154337.17580@cs.yale.edu> Date: 9 May 91 15:43:37 GMT References: <2925@atari.UUCP> <1991May5.123222.14113@mailer.cc.fsu.edu> <2930@atari.UUCP> Sender: news@cs.yale.edu (Usenet News) Organization: Yale University Computer Science Dept., New Haven, CT 06520-2158 Lines: 30 Originator: fischer@ginkgo.CS.Yale.Edu Nntp-Posting-Host: ginkgo.theory.cs.yale.edu In article <2930@atari.UUCP> apratt@atari.UUCP (Allan Pratt) writes: >Supra's driver will find ACSI units which are not connected in consecutive >order starting with zero, and Atari's driver won't. > ... >There is another problem which has been called to my attention, and which >is covered by the same "Atari drivers" caveat: Supra uses one trick to get >more than four partitions per drive, and Atari uses another. If you have a >drive partitioned with Supra's trick, and you connected it to a TT (or any >machine running an Atari driver) the partitions after the fourth one will >not be accessible. Again, it's a question of using non-Atari drivers. > >============================================ >Opinions expressed above do not necessarily -- Allan Pratt, Atari Corp. >reflect those of Atari Corp. or anyone else. ...ames!atari!apratt I would think it would be in Atari's best interests to provide an upgrade path for present ST users of Supra's drives. It shouldn't be too hard to extend AHDI so that: 1. The driver will work like Supra's driver and find ACSI units which are not connected in consecutive order. 2. The driver will recognize Supra's extended partitions as well as Atari's. HDX doesn't have to create them, but it would sure be nice if AHDI and HDX understood them. -- ================================================== | Michael Fischer | ==================================================