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From: ZVD007@DMSWWU1C.BITNET (U.Kuehn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech
Subject: Re: 2nd drive in Megafile 30?
Message-ID: <91172.151551ZVD007@DMSWWU1C.BITNET>
Date: 24 Jun 91 13:34:17 GMT
References: <646@rc6.urc.tue.nl>
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Organisation: Westfaelische Wilhelms-Universitaet, Muenster, Germany



In article <646@rc6.urc.tue.nl>, michael@gem.stack.urc.tue.nl (Michael Brouwer)
says:
>The system booted but the
>second drive wasn't recognized at all, not even by the partitioning
>software (Atari Advanced Hard Disk Utilities (c) 1989 CA400307-004).
>So I tried changing the positon of the dip switch marked `x' on the
>Megafile motherboard with no result. I changed the drive select jumper
>on the harddisk, but this didn't change anything either. When I switched
>the drives (the 20 pin cables) the second drived worked and the first
>one didn't.

The problem is not the hardware, its a software problem: I suppose that you
are using the AHDI; the driver is not written for recognising a second drive
(at least in versions <= 3.01), so all you have to do, is patching the AHDI
or getting another driver which handles two drives correctly.

U.Kuehn