casper@targon.UUCP (Casper Jansen) (01/20/87)
A Note from Holland here (still cold), The Hard disk boor program which I wrote about a few days back will be send over the Net within a few days. There are two things I still have to do. The first one is to ask permission from Atari to include the latest hard disk driver (which I want to include due to the many complaints on the net). Second of all I need to translate the docs into English for all you guys (I sure you want like it in Dutch). In the meantime I have also done some research on the MacBongo programm (Mac emulator), to see if I could post it to the Net. The problem with this is two fold. First of all it uses parts of the programm written by David Small, the original Magic Sac developer. Second of all it uses the Mac's OS roms (on disk). Both parts have a copyright on it. I was hoping that the developer of MacBongo had changed both the OS and the program in such a way that it could be considered as being new programms, so that the copyright was not valid anymore. However, I dont't think this is the case, so I can not distribute them on the net. Sorry guys, I have even taken advise from Atari (Holland), and they also where of the opinion that it would not be correct to do. If you are in much of a hurry, and want to make sure you have a proper version, send me a floppy through the normal mail (and include say a dollar for return postage). My mailling address follows: Stichting Atari gebruikers P.O. Box 40181 4130 ED Vianen Netherlands Attn Casper Jansen PS The Stichting Atari gebruikers is an Atari Users group with about 4100 members, which makes it (according to Sig Hartman) the largest Atari users group in the world!). Casper Jansen ..!mcvax!targon!casper
landay@cory.Berkeley.EDU (James A. Landay) (07/25/88)
I got my hard disk. It took me under 1 hour to get it hooked up
to the Berkeley Microsystems supplied equipment. I had a few problems
with the manual, but everything turned out o.k. there. When I tried
to format the disk, the software wouldn't recognize any SCSI devices.
It took me 2 hours to figure out what was wrong. The drive had a jumper
that had it set to drive select 2 rather than drive select 1. As soon
as I changed that everything worked fine.
NOW THE PROBLEM (Not a problem with BMS, just GEM):
I bought a fast hard disk (28ms 42meg) and partitioned it as follows:
C - ATARI 1 - 15 Meg
D - ATARI 2 - 15 Meg
E - MSDOS - 5 Meg
F - Magic Sac- 6 Meg
I thought this was reasonable. I then proceeded to copy my disks to the
hard drive. As soon as get past ~3 Megs on a partition the performance
gets very very very bad. My floppy is almost as fast. What gives????????
Did DRI screw up that bad?????? I have a 100K read/write cache on C and D.
(it didn't help much)
What is the solution. Which of those PD programs going around will solve
this? Which are SAFE??? Did Alan Pratt say this was fixed in the new ROMs?
Does ATARI have a realistic date on availability??
HELP!!!!
SIGNED - The person who spent plenty of money on a fast drive to see it wasted!
James A. Landay
ARPA: landay@cory.berkeley.edu
ucbvax!cory!landayAllanon@cup.portal.com (07/26/88)
The problem is how GEMDOS does the FAT lookup. There are several PD programs which will fix the problem, the best is probably FATSPEED. I have used it with no problems, and the difference in speed is enormous. Hope this helps, Arnie Elkins Allanon@cup.portal.com sun!cup.portal.com!allanon
dcrevier@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Dan Crevier) (02/05/89)
I accidentally turned off my computer while Super Boot was revising the files, and now my hard drive won't boot. I'm using the ICD host adaptor and a Miniscribe 3650 formatted in RLL format for 64 megs. By booting the ICD disk with the hard drive controller program, it still will not access the hard drive. I assume the boot sector some how got messed up when Superboot was renaming the files. Is there any way I can repair the boot sector or access my other partitions? Thanks in advance for any help. Dan Crevier (dcrevier@jarthur.claremont.edu)
rona@hpdml93.HP.COM (Ron Abramson) (02/07/89)
Put supboot in the auto folder of a floppy. Hold down the alternate key as soon as the drive light comes on. This should force a boot from the floppy. Ron Abramson P.S. My employer thinks I'm doing what he pays me for right now.