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From: page@ulowell.cs.ulowell.edu (Bob Page)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Cheap Hard Disks (the competition)
Message-ID: <1239@ulowell.cs.ulowell.edu>
Date: Thu, 30-Apr-87 12:11:37 EDT
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Posted: Thu Apr 30 12:11:37 1987
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Reply-To: page@ulowell.cs.ulowell.edu (Bob Page)
Organization: University of Lowell
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Summary: It *should* be do-able.  I don't know who has yet, though.

Steve Costa writes:
>If I had confidence that I could run a Bernoulli Box on my Amiga, I would
>buy one immediately.

Mike Meyer replies:
>You ought to be able to take an scsi controller/driver system ...
>and tweak the mountlist/parameters/whatever file.

As I previously reported, a friend (who has the CLtd SCSI controller
and a Bernoulli box) CAN'T get them to work together.  CLtd claims
once you get the cartridge formatted the way the drive wants, you can use
the FORMAT utility to format it for AmigaDOS.

So how do you get it formatted "the way the drive wants"?  First thought
would be to use the SCSIFORMAT utility that CLtd gives you with the
controller.  That doesn't work.  Second thought (from CLtd) is to 
format the cartridge on a PC, then move it to the Amiga.  Well, that didn't
seem to work either, athough CLtd claims others have done it.  Even if
it did work, I'm not going out to buy a PC just to format my Bernoulli
cartridges!

It should be easy enough to write a BBFORMAT program, if we know what
its supposed to do.

Mike again:
>I can't _stand_ not having mass storage anymore.

I have a 20M winny, but a bernoulli box would certainly be a better solution.

The best solution would be Bernoulli box + NFS.  Yeah!

..Bob
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Bob Page, U of Lowell CS Dept.   page@ulowell.{uucp,edu,csnet}