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From: preston@felix.UUCP (Preston L. Bannister)
Newsgroups: net.micro.atari16
Subject: Re: SCSI available yet?
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Date: Tue, 8-Jul-86 12:18:14 EDT
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>A guy I met at a computer store yesterday had a home-built drive consisting of
>an Atari --> SCSI board, an off-the-shelf SCSI controller, and a 70 meg drive.
>He got the Atari --> SCSI board and disk driver from Supra for $200.00. 
>I suppose it's the same board that Supra uses in their hard disk for the ST.

[...]

>Another drawback is that as it stands you can't boot off the hard disk.
>You must do a short boot from the floppy drive, and then the hard drive takes
>over.  I'm not sure if GEMDOS has any provisions to auto-configure off the DMA
>port.  I doubt it.  The upshod is that you can't call your hard disk "drive A:
"

The BIOS listing in the developer's kit has a section (sasi.s?) where
the ST tries to do a boot off the DMA port.  I'll bet the Atari -->
SCSI board just doesn't respond to the boot sequence properly.  (I don't
have the developer's kit here...).

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Preston L. Bannister
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