ralph@laas.fr (Ralph P. Sobek) (11/29/90)
I have recently recovered HDX301.LZH from atari.archive. The readme.1st file describes a certain HDX301.ARC, of which this file seems to be a recompression. I have an old SH 204 hard drive which uses AHDI version 1. Would it be advisable to replace my old AHDI.PRG with the new version? Atari's documentation (readme.1st) only seems to reference megafiles, which mine is *not*. Do I have to reinstall the the drive? I would prefer *not* to reformat the drive! I am willing to upgrade if the new AHDI is more reliable; it *is* bigger! -- Ralph P. Sobek Disclaimer: The above ruminations are my own. ralph@laas.fr Addresses are ordered by importance. ralph@laas.uucp, or ...!uunet!laas!ralph If all else fails, try: sobek@eclair.Berkeley.EDU =============================================================================== Proud new owner of a Mega 4 ST.
GERLOFF@tubvm.cs.tu-berlin.de (Olaf Gerloff) (12/05/90)
In article <RALPH.90Nov29123503@orion.laas.fr>, ralph@laas.fr (Ralph P. Sobek) says: > >I have an old SH 204 hard drive which uses AHDI version 1. Would it >be advisable to replace my old AHDI.PRG with the new version? Atari's >documentation (readme.1st) only seems to reference megafiles, which >mine is *not*. Do I have to reinstall the the drive? I would prefer >*not* to reformat the drive! I am willing to upgrade if the new AHDI >is more reliable; it *is* bigger! > Hello Ralph! You can use AHDI 3.01 with your SH 204, but you must reinstall the drive. I would advise you to do this, because the old HDX versions can't detect bad blocks on the drive correct. Another advantage from AHDI 3.01 is, that you can use more than four partitions on one drive and that the partitions can be bigger than 16MB. So you can use your 20MB completely for C:. For installing the new AHDI you must use HDX for reformating and partitioning your drive. The wincap-file for my HDX knows the SH204. If your copy doesn't know it try SH205 or MEHAFILE 20 instead. After that procedure you can install the new driver with HINSTALL.PRG so that AHDI can be booted from HD. Greetings, Olaf
apratt@atari.UUCP (Allan Pratt) (12/08/90)
>In article <RALPH.90Nov29123503@orion.laas.fr>, ralph@laas.fr (Ralph P. Sobek) >says: >>I have an old SH 204 hard drive which uses AHDI version 1. Would it >>be advisable to replace my old AHDI.PRG with the new version? GERLOFF@tubvm.cs.tu-berlin.de (Olaf Gerloff) writes: >You can use AHDI 3.01 with your SH 204, but you must reinstall the drive. >I would advise you to do this, because the old HDX versions can't detect >bad blocks on the drive correct. Another advantage from AHDI 3.01 is, that >you can use more than four partitions on one drive and that the partitions >can be bigger than 16MB. So you can use your 20MB completely for C:. You don't have to re-format or re-partition the drive to take advantage of the new driver. You do have to run HINSTALL from the new distribution: it will re-write the root and boot sectors in addition to copying the new driver to the disk. On the other hand, you do get some advantages when you reformat with 3.01. As Olaf said, you can have partitions greater than 16MB, and more than four per drive, but in addition you get better bad-sector tracking. Besides, isn't it time for a full backup anyway? :-) By the way, 3.01 won't let you repartition an old-format drive without reformatting. Just so you know. ============================================ Opinions expressed above do not necessarily -- Allan Pratt, Atari Corp. reflect those of Atari Corp. or anyone else. ...ames!atari!apratt