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From: ajy2208@ultb.UUCP (A.J. Yarusso)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
Subject: Re: Old Hardware and Software ... etc ...
Message-ID: <401@ultb.UUCP>
Date: 8 Mar 89 14:33:03 GMT
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Reply-To: ajy2208@ultb.UUCP (A.J. Yarusso (713ICS))
Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology, Information Systems
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Curt,

  I currently have two hard drives hooked up to my 130XE (although I
used to use a 256K 800XL).  To accomplish this, I bought a 1Meg Multi
I/O board from ICD, the MIO XE Adapter (which gives you the normal
XL parallel bus and two cartridge slots), an Adaptek 4000a hard drive
controller board, a PC power supply, and the necessary cables.  Prior to
my purchase of SpartaDOS X I used SpartaDOS 3.2 which works extremely
well with the hard drives.  I have 2 20 meg drives (a Seagate ST225, and
a MicroScience 20 meg drive).  Since the maximum partition size is 16
megabytes, I have 4 partitions:  2 that are 10 megs, 1 of 15, and one of
5.

  Most software that I've encountered will run from the hard drives
(especially with the SpartaDOS X command 'X').  The only programs I
can't run from the hard drives are those that boot from a floppy without
a DOS, and protected programs that can't be copied to the hard drives.

  If anyone would like more information as to how to go about building a
hard drive system for an 8-bit, let me know and I'll be glad to assist
you.

  Albert Yarusso, Rochester Institute of Technology

  Bitnet:  ajy2208@ritvax  (preferred)
  Usenet:  ajy2208@ultb.rit.edu