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Article #36542MegaFile30
From: HC Johnson
Date: Fri, 24 Feb 1989 15:32
Date: Fri, 24 Feb 1989 15:32
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> From: "ROGER@BRAGE Roger Fredriksson QZ-VAX" <ROGER%brage.qz.se%CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU> > > Good morning, > I hope You don't mind me asking You two questions about harddisks for Atari. > ... hoped to receive some advice from You. First, I have seen a Atari harddisk > called MegaFile 30, do You know if it is working so well with Minix that You > would recomend me to buy it? Secondly, if not what would You recomend instead? > /Roger > First. So far, ALL ATARI disks seem to work with minix. Second, I do not know if the MegaFile 30 shares the SH204 grief. It should be easy to check; maybe someone on the new will. -- Use any utility that will access drive 1 on controller 0. Such as, hdx, Magic Sac, Spectre128, a recent utility in START. -- If the program says the drive is there, but reads wrong, then that is the SH204 problem. Third, I would suspect that 30 megabytes implies an Adaptec 4070 RLL controller. I would expect that another RLL drive could be added. Maybe Adaptec will tell you if you can mix RLL and MFM drives. There is a lot to say for clean prepackaged systems. And a Megafile 30 surely is a cleaner package for non-hardware types that say the Berkely Microsystems that I favor. Howard C. Johnson ATT Bell Labs att!lzaz!hcj hcj@lzaz.att.com
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