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From: hase@netmbx.UUCP (Hartmut Semken)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Hard disk drives for the ST
Message-ID: <1633@netmbx.UUCP>
Date: 3 Apr 88 02:48:26 GMT
References: <880322-161915-2761@Xerox> <782@yugas.UUCP>
Reply-To: hase@netmbx.UUCP (Hartmut Semken)
Organization: netmbx Public Access Unix, Berlin
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Posted: Sun Apr  3 03:48:26 1988

In article <782@yugas.UUCP> avy@yugas.UUCP (Avy MOISE) writes:
>Why bother with the German magazine ?
Why not? If you can get a translation it will give you more info about
the ST series than Atari...
>
>1. Assuming that you have the translation, you still have to build a converter
>   board.
This is simple. Tokk less than 2 hours.
>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 !
Right. You need special software. The "converter" is a little board
providing all signals to connect an OMTI HD-controller
(PC-BUS-controller; Western Digital controllers don't work).
The software listings were included in the article; source and binaries
are availeble on disk, too.
>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.
The "converter" costs about 50 Deutsche Marks, less than $30.
>4. You can by an Atari - 20Mb drive for less than $700.00.
An Seagate ST225 plus OMTI sell for <$300 as the Byte shows....
>
>Others have done it, why re-invent the wheel ?
'Cause it is cheap and FUN.
The solution ist not "the best you can get" (not compatible to the
original SH205) but it works
hase
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