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Article #37547Re: TRUE or FALSE ???
From: Fred Brooks
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 1989 14:37
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 1989 14:37
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jlong@afit-ab.arpa (Jeffrey K. Long) writes:
>I was hust told by local atari service guru that the atari host adaptor
>board can only support a few specific drives and that it won't work with
>any other brands or anything other than a 20 meg MFM or 30 Meg RLL drive
>mechanism. Is this true or false?? I was hoping to use the atari host
>adaptor with an Adaptec 4000 with my CDC Wren-I drive (39 meg raw).
>
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I don't think so. I have used the atari host adapter with a few controllers
with good results with all. The only problem is the atari has a problem with
logical drive other that 0. It returns good for all drives whither they are
connected or not.
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