Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!drutx!druwy!dlm
From: dlm@druwy.ATT.COM (Daniel L. Moore)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Mac Emulator, what to buy?
Message-ID: <4699@druwy.ATT.COM>
Date: 12 Mar 90 02:06:04 GMT
References: <1188@oucsace.cs.OHIOU.EDU>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories - Denver
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in article <1188@oucsace.cs.OHIOU.EDU>, bwhite@oucsace.cs.OHIOU.EDU (Bill White) says:
> 	I've got an Adaptec controller / 65meg RLL setup which I'd like to
> use for Spectre GCR if/when I buy it.  The ICD host adaptor tells me that
> because the Adaptec uses FAT bad-sector mapping rather than SCSI, I shouldn't
> use it with Spectre.  But I do have a few error-free partitions.  Can I use
> Spectre with these partitions?

	Adaptec controllers will do bad sector mapping at the controller
level, if the software tells them to.  The format code needs to send down
the bad sector info to the controller and have it remap those sectors.  I
thought that ICD's software did this, you may just have an old version.
(I know that most of Dave's STs are using ICD controllers/software so you
shouldn't have any problem.)

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