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From: weber_w@apollo.uucp (Walt Weber)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Adding another Hard Drive??
Message-ID: <33b8f071.1f6@apollo.uucp>
Date: Tue, 17-Mar-87 15:14:00 EST
Article-I.D.: apollo.33b8f071.1f6
Posted: Tue Mar 17 15:14:00 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 19-Mar-87 01:09:10 EST
References: <659@atari.UUCP>
Reply-To: weber_w@apollo.UUCP (Walt Weber)
Organization: Apollo Computer, Chelmsford, MA
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In article <659@atari.UUCP> dyer@atari.UUCP (Landon Dyer) writes:
>> in article <901@chinet.UUCP>, cabbie@chinet.UUCP (Richard Andrews) says:
>>> ............................................Is there a patch that I can do
>>> to the handler to enable the second drive? ..............................
>>> 
>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.

The Berkley MicroSystems hard disk driver supports the capability.  I am presently
running two Maxtor 1065's off of an Adaptec, and it works quite nicely, thank you.

That gives my li'l ol' 520  8 partitions of approx. 14Mb each.  I'm now backing up
from one hard drive to the other, and my floppies are FINALLY getting a chance to
rest.   The backup procedure is not straightforward, however (Carefully straddling
the 40-folder limit with your source foot and destination ...... :-).

In addition, when you deal with BMS, you also get a clock on the controller, which
eliminates all problems with cartridge-mounted clocks or piggybacked KBD chips, etc.

-- 
Walt Weber               PHONE: (617) 256-6600 x7004
Apollo Computer          GENIE: W.WEBER
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