Path: utzoo!yunexus!gen1!yugas!avy
From: avy@yugas.UUCP (Avy MOISE)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Hard disk drives for the ST
Summary: but who builds it and who writes the device driver ?
Message-ID: <782@yugas.UUCP>
Date: 25 Mar 88 16:12:29 GMT
Article-I.D.: yugas.782
Posted: Fri Mar 25 11:12:29 1988
References: <880322-161915-2761@Xerox>
Organization: C.R.E.S.S., York University, North York, Ontario, Canada, M3J 1P3.
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In article <880322-161915-2761@Xerox>, jeffers.Wbst@XEROX.COM (Bill) writes:
> With all this complaining about the price of hard drives I'm surprised there
> isn't 
> more interest in the german magazine article describing how to hack an ibm drive
> onto the dma port. I for one am extremely interested in getting a translation
> and a schematic.

Why bother with the German magazine ?

1. Assuming that you have the translation, you still have to build a converter
   board.
2. Assuming that you have the DMA->HD converter board you still have to get 
   or write a hard disk device driver/formatter. STHD.prg from Atari and
   TAMInit.prg from GlobeStock are not in the public domain !
3. You can purchase a DMA->SCSI converter with all the software necessary to
   format and access a hard drive for less than $100.00 US.
4. You can by an Atari - 20Mb drive for less than $700.00.

Others have done it, why re-invent the wheel ?
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