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Article #28071Re: Hard disks for the ST
From: Phil Hughes
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1987 00:19
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1987 00:19
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In article <6337@brl-smoke.ARPA>, geoffs@brl-smoke.ARPA (Geoffrey Sauerborn ) writes:
> 1. Has any one been able to connect one of the many "Generic" hard
> disks popular in the MSDOS world to the ST? (e.g. Seagate $300/20meg,
> Bernoulli Box, ...). I am sure there must be someone who has done
> this... it may have ment doing something with the controller?
The BMS interface card converts the Atari DMA port signals into standard
SASI bus signals. Then just buy a SASI controller for whatever device
you want to talk to. Works fine.
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!uunet!pilchuck!apcisea!ssc!fyl From: fyl@ssc.UUCP (Phil Hughes) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: Hard disks for the ST Message-ID: <755@ssc.UUCP> Date: Fri, 28-Aug-87 20:19:53 EDT Article-I.D.: ssc.755 Posted: Fri Aug 28 20:19:53 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 30-Aug-87 09:11:58 EDT References: <6337@brl-smoke.ARPA> Organization: SSC, Inc., Seattle, WA Lines: 13 Keywords: HARD DISK MSDOS Summary: get a BMS controller