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From: dlm@druwy.ATT.COM (Dan Moore)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: ST Hard Drives
Message-ID: <3842@druwy.ATT.COM>
Date: 1 Mar 89 16:15:46 GMT
References: <2173@brahma.cs.hw.ac.uk>
Organization: AT&T, Denver, CO
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in article <2173@brahma.cs.hw.ac.uk>, neil@cs.hw.ac.uk (Neil Forsyth) says:
> 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. 

	Atari has started buying DMA chips from a new supplier.  The new
DMA chips are not compatible with some older DMA host adpaters.  So some
older third party hard drives and Atari SH204s won't work with the new
STs.



				Dan Moore
				AT&T Bell Labs
				Denver
				dlm@druwy.ATT.COM
				dlm@druhi.ATT.COM