HOESEL@HGRRUG52.BITNET (07/19/89)
Hi there, I just bought a 50MB SCSI harddisk from a german firm (hard & soft herberg). They mountet a 50MB seagate drive 157N together with a host-adapter from ICD and a power supply in a metal case and they propably make a lot of money with it. The software that comes with it is the software that belong to the ICD host-adapter. the software has versionnumber 3.20 and I have some problems with it. The main problem being that it is no longer possible to boot from floppy. The manuals states that I should press alt-ctrl-shift during the boot process and it will then boot from floppy. The only thing that happens is that the system does boot only partially: it does not execute any programs from the auto-folder on floppy or disk (with the exeption perhaps of th e program that detects I pressed alt-ctrl-shif), nor are any *.acc files loaded. I have to disconnect the drive to boot from floppy. There is an other problem. The host-adapter uses one scsi-address for a clock which I like very much on a 50MB harddisk. However it seems that it does not switch dates correctly at 0.00. Maybe this is a special german version (I have an UK-st) The control panel that comes with it (is that legal???) showes times in 24 hour system but is german (which I don't like that much) The control panel I normally use uses the 12 hour system (which btw. I also don't like), but it in english. Is there perhaps a difference between the actually stored time and date in the host adapter or atari. Or is the software faulty. I cannot test this at the moment, because my harddisk broke down 2 days after I got it. Any explanation, maybe from ICD???? greetings, frans HOESEL@HGRRUG52.bitnet