Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watnot!watmath!clyde!rutgers!ames!ucbcad!ucbvax!decvax!decwrl!sun!imagen!atari!leavens From: leavens@atari.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: Adding another Hard Drive?? Message-ID: <663@atari.UUCP> Date: Mon, 16-Mar-87 19:37:55 EST Article-I.D.: atari.663 Posted: Mon Mar 16 19:37:55 1987 Date-Received: Wed, 18-Mar-87 02:18:56 EST References: <659@atari.UUCP> Organization: Atari Corp., Sunnyvale CA Lines: 31 >>> 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.... > Yep, I goofed. What I was trying to say is that you can certainly use more than one SH204 on your system, and that you have to do a little bit of switch flipping to do so. Ow! My shin's still hurting from the _last_ time you kicked me... --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."