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From: al@tolerant.UUCP (Albert Palmer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: IBM R40 hard drive
Message-ID: <4046@tolerant.UUCP>
Date: 22 Mar 89 16:02:56 GMT
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In article <12723@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> dav@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (William David Haas) writes:
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>I have a chance to buy an IBM R40 Hard drive.  This is a drive that will work
>on XTs and I think ATs without any problems.  Its a very good deal but I

Yes, I have connected a IBM R40 using a 4000A and a Supra host.  This
was for a friend and I'm not sure of the setup, but can find out.  What
I did was play with the number of heads and tracks until it formated
at the right size.  He has been using it for the last 3 months.

Now for my question.  Has anyone used an ESDI drive on the ST?  I have
a chance to buy a 380meg drive for a very good price.  I know that
Adaptec sells a SCSI to ESDI, but what kind of transfer rate would I
see using this?

Also, the new ICD and Supra software supports 32 meg partitions when using
the new 1.4 TOS.  It is so nice going from 12 hard drive icons to 6.  Every
things seems to work fine.  I guess this is one more reason to buy the
ROMs when they are available!

al palmer