jeffers.Wbst@XEROX.COM (Bill) (03/23/88)
With all this complaining about the price of hard drives I'm surprised there isn't more interest in the german magazine article describing how to hack an ibm drive onto the dma port. I for one am extremely interested in getting a translation and a schematic. If anyone can supply me with enough info to build one at a reasonable price please send me mail. If anyone else is interested please send me mail and maybe we can split the cost of translation. Bill jeffers.wbst@Xerox.COM
avy@yugas.UUCP (Avy MOISE) (03/25/88)
In article <880322-161915-2761@Xerox>, jeffers.Wbst@XEROX.COM (Bill) writes: > With all this complaining about the price of hard drives I'm surprised there > isn't > more interest in the german magazine article describing how to hack an ibm drive > onto the dma port. I for one am extremely interested in getting a translation > and a schematic. Why bother with the German magazine ? 1. Assuming that you have the translation, you still have to build a converter board. 2. Assuming that you have the DMA->HD converter board you still have to get or write a hard disk device driver/formatter. STHD.prg from Atari and TAMInit.prg from GlobeStock are not in the public domain ! 3. You can purchase a DMA->SCSI converter with all the software necessary to format and access a hard drive for less than $100.00 US. 4. You can by an Atari - 20Mb drive for less than $700.00. Others have done it, why re-invent the wheel ? -- Avygdor Moise, York University. (C.R.E.S.S.), Petrie Bldg. Rm 340, 4700 Keele St., North York, Ontario, Canada. M3J 1P3 UUCP: ...!nexus!yugas!avy Tel:1 416 736-5359 BITNET: "yugas!avy@.yunexus.bitnet"
hase@netmbx.UUCP (Hartmut Semken) (04/03/88)
In article <782@yugas.UUCP> avy@yugas.UUCP (Avy MOISE) writes: >Why bother with the German magazine ? Why not? If you can get a translation it will give you more info about the ST series than Atari... > >1. Assuming that you have the translation, you still have to build a converter > board. This is simple. Tokk less than 2 hours. >2. Assuming that you have the DMA->HD converter board you still have to get > or write a hard disk device driver/formatter. STHD.prg from Atari and > TAMInit.prg from GlobeStock are not in the public domain ! Right. You need special software. The "converter" is a little board providing all signals to connect an OMTI HD-controller (PC-BUS-controller; Western Digital controllers don't work). The software listings were included in the article; source and binaries are availeble on disk, too. >3. You can purchase a DMA->SCSI converter with all the software necessary to > format and access a hard drive for less than $100.00 US. The "converter" costs about 50 Deutsche Marks, less than $30. >4. You can by an Atari - 20Mb drive for less than $700.00. An Seagate ST225 plus OMTI sell for <$300 as the Byte shows.... > >Others have done it, why re-invent the wheel ? 'Cause it is cheap and FUN. The solution ist not "the best you can get" (not compatible to the original SH205) but it works hase -- Hartmut Semken, Berlin (West) hase@netmbx.UUCP I think, you may be right in what I think you're thinking. (Douglas Adams)