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From: gerloff@opal.cs.tu-berlin.de (Olaf Gerloff)
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Subject: Re: Latest Atari hard disk formatter/partitioner?
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Date: 23 May 91 12:50:17 GMT
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In article <5186@syma.sussex.ac.uk>, grahamt@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Graham Thomas) writes:
|> 
|> What is the latest version of Atari's own hard disk formatter?  I am
|> about to buy a second-hand Atari Megafile 60, and would like to reformat
|> it with up-to-date software.  My current hard disk (SH205, same as a
|> Megafile 20, I think) has been formatted with HDX301, which was written
|> in Summer 89.  Has there been anything since?  Does anyone have strong
|> feelings about whether a different formatter (Supra, ICD, GE-Soft, Claus
|> Brod's driver, etc.) would be better?
|> 

Hello Graham!
The latest version of HDX and AHDI is 4.0. I use it to format my MEGAFILE
and it works fine. The difference between 3.01 and 4.0 is, that the driver
will support SCSI-DMA on the TT. I copied it from the MEGA STE Harddisk-
Utility Disk.
The only other driver I know is CBHD from Claus Brod. The driver is good,
but it didn't support big GEM and extended partitions in the current
version :-( and I want one big partition.

Greetings, Olaf
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