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From: trb@stag.UUCP ( Todd Burkey )
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix,comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: MINIX ST and Supra hard disks
Message-ID: <662@stag.UUCP>
Date: 13 Nov 88 19:50:27 GMT
References: <28@umvlsi.ECS.UMASS.EDU>
Reply-To: trb@stag.UUCP ( Todd Burkey )
Organization: Mindtools ST Access Group, Plymouth, MN
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In article <28@umvlsi.ECS.UMASS.EDU> kimmel@umvlsi.ECS.UMASS.EDU (Mathew Kimmel) writes:
>I've heard that the current version of Minix ST will not talk to Supra
>hard disks.  However, I've also seen a message from someone who says he
>uses a Supra hard disk with Minix ST and has no problems.  I'm not sure
>what to believe, but I'd like to know the answer before I buy Minix.
>Can the current version of Minix ST talk to a Supra hard disk?  If not,
>is there a patch available that I could apply to the operating system to
>fix this?

A friend just bought his second 30MB Supra recently and discovered that the
newer one works fine under Minix, but the older (8 months old) Supra
doesn't. He is using the same format/utility software for each, and
the only obvious difference is that the drive types were different (I
think he said the new one was Seagate and the old was Miniscribe). The
drive type shouldn't affect operation, so there must have been other
changes in the ST-SCSI adapter as well. I hear that Supra is working
on the problem, so hopefully there will be a software fix for the older
drives.

  -Todd Burkey
   trb@stag.UUCP