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From: john@viper.UUCP (John Stanley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Adding another Hard Drive??
Message-ID: <694@viper.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 18-Mar-87 11:25:14 EST
Article-I.D.: viper.694
Posted: Wed Mar 18 11:25:14 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 20-Mar-87 01:24:07 EST
References: <685@viper.UUCP> <1000@imagen.UUCP>
Reply-To: john@viper.UUCP (John Stanley)
Organization: DynaSoft Systems
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In article <1000@imagen.UUCP> turner@imagen.UUCP (D'arc Angel) writes:
 >in article <685@viper.UUCP>, john@viper.UUCP (John Stanley) says:
 >+ In article <659@atari.UUCP> dyer@atari.UUCP (Landon Dyer) writes:
 >+  >one drive per controller.  And naturally, Atari does not
 >+  >encourage or condone such modifications to the hardware....
 >+ 
 >+ Well, I suppose that's suppost to be helpful??
 >+ 
 >+ People are asking serious questions about how to expand their storage
 >+ and all you can say is "Atari doesn't encourage it...."?
 >
 >............    I have never
 >seen, nor do i think that i will ever see, a company that encourages
 >users to open up their hardware and hack away at it. The legal
 >ramifications are that if the company in any way, shape, or form
 >condones such behavior then they are liable for any damage done by
 >the user. 

The user who asked the original question was trying to get some advice
on how to get two or more H-disks up and running on a single ST.  He did
ask about the possibility of hacking-onto an existing Atari or Supra
(don't remember which) drive, but that wasn't the main point...  He
needs more disk space.  All Landon's response said was (essentialy)
"Atari isn't about to encourage that kind of thing...".  I think my
response to Landon chiding him for not making any -constructive-
suggestions was proper under the circumstances...

I think you're over reacting to my message which essentialy says:
"Come on, you can do better than that."  I'm sure ways exist to get
multiple hard drives up on an ST.  I'm equaly sure that such setups
are not foreign to Landon/Neil or any of the other kind Atari people
who frequent this group.  I have no problems with the "standard
company disclaimer against unsupported HW mods".  I think he could
have gone on after giving it to tell the poor guy something that
would help instead of just leaving him high and dry...

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John Stanley (john@viper.UUCP)
Software Consultant - DynaSoft Systems
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