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Article #36843Re: ST Hard Drives
From: Dan Moore
Date: Wed, 01 Mar 1989 16:15
Date: Wed, 01 Mar 1989 16:15
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in article <2173@brahma.cs.hw.ac.uk>, neil@cs.hw.ac.uk (Neil Forsyth) says: > We have just bought two more 1040ST computers complete with SM124 > monitors and Megafile 30 hard disks. The odd thing is that the new > computers only boot a new hard drive from power up but not an old SH204. > Performing a coldboot will then boot up an SH204. Atari has started buying DMA chips from a new supplier. The new DMA chips are not compatible with some older DMA host adpaters. So some older third party hard drives and Atari SH204s won't work with the new STs. Dan Moore AT&T Bell Labs Denver dlm@druwy.ATT.COM dlm@druhi.ATT.COM
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!xanth!ukma!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!att!mtuxo!mtgzz!drutx!druwy!dlm From: dlm@druwy.ATT.COM (Dan Moore) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: ST Hard Drives Message-ID: <3842@druwy.ATT.COM> Date: 1 Mar 89 16:15:46 GMT References: <2173@brahma.cs.hw.ac.uk> Organization: AT&T, Denver, CO Lines: 18