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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: <1991May10.080231.19384@informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
Date: 10 May 91 08:02:31 GMT
References: <2925@atari.UUCP> <1991May5.123222.14113@mailer.cc.fsu.edu> <2930@atari.UUCP> <1991May9.154337.17580@cs.yale.edu>
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fischer-michael@cs.yale.edu (Michael Fischer) writes:

>In article <2930@atari.UUCP> apratt@atari.UUCP (Allan Pratt) writes:
>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.

Perhaps they don't want the two formats to be mixed up by users.
Anyway, the two points you made are two of the reasons I wrote my own
driver. Especially (1) is extremely annoying.

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