ralph@prosun.first.gmd.de (Ralph Berg) (04/17/91)
How has any experience in adding a dive st506 into the atari megafile 60. I've heard this will go on using the maxon bhdi (or else) driver polling additonal drives on the same ASCI port. Thanks in front. -------- Ralph Berg ......................... ||| GMD FIRST, Germany, Berlin ||| INTERNET: ralph@prosun.first.gmd.de /|\ ....................................
csbrod@immd4.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Claus Brod) (04/17/91)
ralph@prosun.first.gmd.de (Ralph Berg) writes: >How has any experience in adding a dive st506 into >the atari megafile 60. I've heard this will go on >using the maxon bhdi (or else) driver polling additonal >drives on the same ASCI port. The driver is called CBHD and is part of my book on harddisks published by MAXON. The upgrade is easy and is described in the book. In short: - use a 3.5" drive (5.25" drives won't fit) - use the second 20 pin connector on the controller board for the ST506 data bus; the control bus is shared - remove one of the two terminator packs - make a small modification on the controller board (phone or email me for details) - get software that knows how to access the second drive (for example, see above) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Claus Brod, Am Felsenkeller 2, Things. Take. Time. D-8772 Marktheidenfeld, West Germany (Piet Hein) csbrod@medusa.informatik.uni-erlangen.de Claus Brod@wue.maus.de ----------------------------------------------------------------------
erlingh@sigyn.idt.unit.no (Erling Henanger) (04/18/91)
Well, I haven't tested exactly st506, but I've tested other RLL drives
in my megafile60, and there's nothing more to do than to unplug the
old drive and plug in the new one. Easy :-)
Erling.
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------ / \ /____ / / |/ \____| o Atari Lives !ytsuji@wucc.waseda.ac.jp (Y.Tsuji) (04/18/91)
As to connecting two sets of bus lines:
1) I simply bought these flat cables from a shop (adding the second
drive to ADAPTEC board is a common practice in IBM PC world).
2) One or two of the 20-pin data bus had been disabled and had to
be cut and enabled.
3) finding suitable a mounting kit and additional power supply
required some inventiveness but I managed.
4) Minix-ST presupposes the existence of unit 0 lun 1 and ICD's
TOS driver just works fine. Sorry, I haven't even tried to
use the driver that came with my Megafile.
Hope to have been of some help.
Dr Y. Tsuji (ytsuji@jpnwas00.BITNET)