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From: VBRANDT@DBNUAMA1.BITNET
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: ICD driver software
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Date: 20 Dec 89 08:03:46 GMT
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Hello all,

In Info-Atari16 Digest, Ray Wallace (wallace@oldtmr.enet.dec.com) replied to
my query:

>In article <8911300807.AA08786@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>, VBRANDT@DBNUAMA1.BITNET
>writes...
>>  BUT:  The included ICDFMT.DAT file says Version 3.00 and lists only "d" type
>>entries, ie. only disk drives, no more controllers, such as for my Maxtor.
>
>The following is from ICD's READ.ME file -
[Excerpt omitted]

   Thanks, Ray, for pointing this out.  The ARCUTIL program for VM/CMS wouldn't
even show the READ.ME file in the archive, let alone extract it, and I jumped to
conclusions.

>Sounds like you can't use ICDs V4 software with anything but OMTI, ADAPTEC,
>and embedded SCSI drives.

  What else is there?  Has anyone ever used SASI?  Also, can anyone recommend a
good, cheap embedded-SCSI tape streamer that can be hooked up to an ICD adapter?