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From: turner@imagen.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Adding another Hard Drive??
Message-ID: <975@imagen.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 13-Mar-87 18:57:23 EST
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Posted: Fri Mar 13 18:57:23 1987
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in article <657@atari.UUCP>, leavens@atari.UUCP (Alex Leavens) says:
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+ in article <901@chinet.UUCP>, cabbie@chinet.UUCP (Richard Andrews) says:
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++ 
++ 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...

it bloody well won't work. listen if you are going to speak as an
atari representive you have a responsiblity to know what you're
talking about....

atari does not do drive selection properly, instead the drive number
is stored as the high order bit of each SCSI command, hence a
special driver is needed before you can use two drives, not to
mention the fact that the formatter etc. doesn't know about a second
drive. If you want to see how it's done I suggest the current copy
of STapplications, there's a good article by Tom Love on a two drive
system.

+ 
+ --alex @ Atari
+ 
+ BIX:alexl.            GEnie: ALEXLEAVENS      AtariCorp: 408-745-2006
+ 
+ "How can you be in two places at once when you're not anywhere at all."
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