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From: braner@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (braner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: questions Re: Hard drives for the ST
Message-ID: <3268@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>
Date: 1 Jan 88 19:52:56 GMT
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Reply-To: braner@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (braner)
Organization: Cornell Theory Center, Cornell University, Ithaca NY
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Summary: SH204 & AHDI.PRG

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I wonder: is the 18 inch limit on the length of the cable connecting
the ST to the Atari SH204 hard disk (stated in the user manual) the
real technical limit?  Would be very nice to have a, say, 3 feet cable.
(I hate fan and motor noise.)

Does anybody have a disassembly of AHDI.PRG?  I have a strange bug, and
suspect that AHDI.PRG fiddles with high RAM.  Could that be?  Is there
an alternative driver program for the Atari HD?

- Moshe Braner

PS: how can I persuade PC-Ditto to read partitions D: and E: from inside
MS-DOS?  I am trying out PCD 3.0 on 1040ST, mono, SH204 HD, and _did_ put
"device=pc_dhd.sys" at top of config.sys.  "Dir d:" prints either garbage or
an empty list of files.  The PCD docs say that reformatting the HD is _not_
required (unless you want to autoboot MS-DOS from the HD, in which case you
must let MS-DOS reformat partition C:).  Partition C reads OK (and I did
not reformat it).