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From: hvaalde@cs.vu.nl (Aalderen van Harold)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st,comp.sys.atari.st.tech
Subject: Re: Using ST hard disks on TT's
Keywords: Supra, ICD, partitions
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Date: 12 May 91 11:42:06 GMT
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apratt@atari.UUCP (Allan Pratt) writes:

>It is possible that HDX will not be able to format your drive, because it
>can't tell how big it is.  HDX can always tell how big SCSI drives are
>(that is, drives on the SCSI bus), but it can't always tell about ACSI
>drives.  It might ask you what type of drive it is, with a menu of drive
>types to choose from.  In either of those cases, I can't help you -- I
>don't know which type to choose for the various Supra drives.

Suppose I have a Megafile 44 with a Quantum 105 connected to SCSI
controller in the M44 attached to a Mega 4 ST computer.

Can I use Atari HD tools to format the Quantum and/or the cartridges of the
M44?

actually we already have this configuration but we had great difficulty in
getting it to work, had to use ICD tools to format the Quantum.
The HD are know working with AHDI 3.01 as driver
but we still have the following problems:

- we cannot M44 cartridges with HDX 3.02
- On poweron off the system it takes several boot cycles before the HD's are
  recognized.
  After that everything works fine.

  Does anybody knows a solution to our problems?
  It should be possible to attach a SCSI drive to the internal SCSI controller
  of the Megafile 44, shouldn't it?
  (if possibly please reply by email, I can post the solution later)


Harold van Aalderen (hvaalde@cs.vu.nl) and his brother.