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From: fgbrooks@pnet01.cts.com (Fred Brooks)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: TRUE or FALSE ???
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Date: 30 Mar 89 14:37:28 GMT
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jlong@afit-ab.arpa (Jeffrey K. Long) writes:
>I was hust told by local atari service guru that the atari host adaptor
>board can only support a few specific drives and that it won't work with
>any other brands or anything other than a 20 meg MFM or 30 Meg RLL drive
>mechanism.  Is this true or false??  I was hoping to use the atari host
>adaptor with an Adaptec 4000 with my CDC Wren-I drive (39 meg raw).
>
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I don't think so. I have used the atari host adapter with a few controllers
with good results with all. The only problem is the atari has a problem with
logical drive other that 0. It returns good for all drives whither they are
connected or not.

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