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- Hello,
-
- This the readme/install file for NOAHDI.PRG.
-
- NOAHDI.PRG is a AHDI.PRG V1.7 compatible driver for Atari harddisk's. Maybe
- it can be used for other brand harddisk's if they have a Adaptec compatible
- controller. If you have another controller and the driver does not work,
- you only have to rewrite the lowlevel driver part.
-
- I wanted to release this driver to the net for over a 2 years now. So now is
- the time. I dont use my atari anymore, so dont ask for updates. You have
- to do it yourself or ask other atari NOAHDI users if they have added
- other nice features to the driver.
-
- The driver is compiled with the Mark Williams C compiler V3.0.6
- The assembly file HD_DVR.S is very MW specific. If you have another
- compiler you will have to rewrite it (HD_DVR.S). Its only meaning is
- make the driver bootable with the Atari harddisk utilities.
-
- Installation:
-
- Place all the sources in a directory together with the makefile.
-
- Type make.
-
- If all went well you will find NOAHDI.PRG in source directory.
-
- If do not want a bootable driver, copy NOAHDI.PRG to your AUTO
- folder. It will initialize and install your harddisk from there.
- There will be no message on the screen if it has been intalled
- correctly. When the driver can not intall, it will print a
- message.
-
- If you want a bootable driver, copy it to C: root directory and
- rename it to AHDI.PRG. The normal Atari bootloader will pick it
- up and execute it at boottime.
- There will be a copyright message when the driver has installed
- correctly. When the driver can not intall, it will print a
- message.
-
- NOAHDI worked fine for over a year now. I have an Atari 520ST upgraded to
- 1Mb with TOS 1.02 and a SH204 harddisk. Other users with newer hardware
- reported no problems. The only thing that may trouble you are the new
- ROM's (TOS) Atari released.
-
-
- Why use NOAHDI.PRG:
-
- NOAHDI supports 2 drives/controller, most other drivers do not.
-
- NOAHDI supports up to 8 controllers.
-
- You can add support for other controllers.
-
-
- Why did i write NOAHDI:
-
- I ran out of harddisk space one day and wanted to add a second
- harddisk. I found out that AHDI does not support 2 drives/contlr
- and used the ICD driver instead. Because of a bug in the host
- adapter the ICD not always functioned correctly. So i tried the
- AHDI driver from Atari which comes as a listing with the developers
- kit. It was out of date. I had 2 choices at that moment, extend
- the assembly source of the Atari AHDI driver, or start from the
- beginning in C. I decided on the last.
-
-
- The following things must be added to NOAHDI:
-
- Update the driver to AHDI V3.00.
- Extended partitions.
- Compatible AHDI variables. See Atari AHDI update release notes.
- Support for removeable media.
- Add extra parameter to hrw() function. See Atari AHDI update
- notes.
-
- Install, format and bootload utility.
-
- Desk accessory to configure or check on NOAHDI driver status. Special
- stuff for removeable media.
-
- FAT/Cache utilities to speedup disk writes.
-
- Add support for new (rainbow) TOSses.
-
- Add support for new SCSI bus on Atari's
-
-
- Have fun with the NOAHDI driver.
-
- My address:
-
- Ted Schipper
- Scharstraat 43
- 1317 PN Almere
- The Netherlands
-
- or
-
- ted@tedux.hobby.nl (...!mcvax!hp4nl!hgatenl!tedux!ted)
-
-