Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!ukc!etive!hwcs!neil
From: neil@cs.hw.ac.uk (Neil Forsyth)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: ST Hard Drives
Keywords: Booting from power up
Message-ID: <2173@brahma.cs.hw.ac.uk>
Date: 24 Feb 89 09:37:32 GMT
Organization: Computer Science, Heriot-Watt U., Scotland
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We have just bought two more 1040ST computers complete with SM124 monitors and
Megafile 30 hard disks. The odd thing is that the new computers only boot a new
hard drive from power up but not an old SH204. Performing a coldboot will then
boot up an SH204.
Both drives are using HDB to boot and are now using the latest version of AHDI
that came with the Megafile30's. The 1040's have ROM version 1.02.
Has anyone got any idea (esp. Atari) as to why these new ST's are being so
choosy about their drives. I suspect it is a revision of the ST hardware.


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