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From: dyer@atari.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Adding another Hard Drive??
Message-ID: <659@atari.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 13-Mar-87 18:40:05 EST
Article-I.D.: atari.659
Posted: Fri Mar 13 18:40:05 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 14-Mar-87 19:44:43 EST
Organization: Atari Corp., Sunnyvale CA
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> in article <901@chinet.UUCP>, cabbie@chinet.UUCP (Richard Andrews) says:
>> I dove into a Atari hard drive last night and started with my usual play
>> tactics.  It seems that the Adaptek controller will support 2 hard disk
>> drives.  The current software does not want to see the second drive. 
>> (No, I didn't really expect it to.) (:>)  Is there a patch that I can do
>> to the handler to enable the second drive?  Neil?? Alex??  It would be neat
>> to add a second drive and power supply and have more storage! 
>> 
>   If you've got a production drive, I think there's a switch on the
> Atari controller board that allows you to set what logical unit the
> drive is.  Just change that, and...

Sorry, Alex --- that doesn't help.  ->ooof!<-  [I just kicked his shins:]

The Adaptec controller will indeed support more than one drive.
The current AHDI.PRG hard disk driver does not support more than
one drive per controller.  And naturally, Atari does not
encourage or condone such modifications to the hardware....


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