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From: trb@stag.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Hard disks for the ST
Message-ID: <205@stag.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 26-Aug-87 22:08:28 EDT
Article-I.D.: stag.205
Posted: Wed Aug 26 22:08:28 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 29-Aug-87 17:45:44 EDT
References: <6337@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Reply-To: trb@stag.UUCP ( Todd Burkey )
Organization: Mindtools ST Access Group, Plymouth, MN
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Keywords: HARD DISK MSDOS

In article <6337@brl-smoke.ARPA> geoffs@brl-smoke.ARPA (Geoffrey Sauerborn ) writes:
>	1. Has any one been able to connect one of the many "Generic" hard
>disks popular in the MSDOS world to the ST? (e.g. Seagate $300/20meg,

Yes, although it doesn't really pay to do it just for a 20 meg or so,
since you need to get a scsi adapter board (about $150), drive
($250-$350), and case and power supply ($80-$125), so you end up
paying about the same as if you went mail order on a Supra 20...which
seems to be the best deal around (and a lot quieter than my Supra 30).
But the nice thing about rolling your own is that you can stick
several drives on one controller, as some friends have recently done.
>
>	2. PC-DITTO: Will a hard disk running under MSDOS work
>on an ST running PC-DITTO?

I have run PC-Ditto from my normal ST hard disk, using the ST hard
disk as program storage, etc with no probs. I would imagine you could
format a hard disk on a PC and then just move it right over to the ST
if you wanted (highly impractical and unlikely that you would be using
a scsi drive on the PC, though). You can use the standard PCDOS 3.2
format and partioning software on a ST hard disk partition if you want
to set up an autoboot drive under PC-Ditto, but I haven't seen any
real need to do so yet. I did run Nortons Utilities on my normal ST
floppies (from within PC-Ditto), and had no problems...has anyone had
the nerve to try any of the disk re-organizers or hard disk cache
programs from PC-Ditto on a normal ST disk partition?

  -Todd Burkey
  trb@stag.UUCP