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- From: gnome@mag-net.co.uk (John Marchant)
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- Subject: Re: Using Conner/Seagate IDE on OktagonAT
- Date: 31 Mar 1996 14:40:49 GMT
- Organization: Gnome's Steamware
- Sender: gnome@mag-net.co.uk (John Marchant)
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- In a message on 25-Mar-96 16:50:46, Christian Thomas Hunyaiz wrote:
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- > Hello everybody,
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- > I was trying to use a Conner 40MB IDE-Harddisk (V2.25) with the Oktagon 2008
- > AT-IDE controller and encountered some problems. The HD will be recognized
- > by my system, but with the wrong number of tracks. As long as I do not
-
- > The second problem may be less complicated to solve and arises, when I try
- > to use a Seagate st3144 Rev1 124MB HD-IDE-Drive on the Oktagon, which works
- > perfectly well in my A4000 (in fact it was the built-in drive, when I bought
- > the computer).
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- > The Oktagon-controller will correctly write to and load from this drive, as
- > soon as it has been correctly recognized. But the problem arises at
-
- Well I'm very baffled by what you say. You're using IDE drives with the
- Oktagon?? The Oktagon 2008 is a SCSI controller, so I can't imagine how
- it recognizes an IDE drive at all. It's true that Commodore use
- scsi.device to control IDE drives, but that's because they made a
- dual-purpose device to save a lot of duplicated coding.
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- I have an Oktagon 2008 in my A4000, and it drives a 500Mb HD mounted on
- the Oktagon card. Also an internal Toshiba CD and an external Viper tape
- drive. My original 120Mb IDE drive is also running happily as the boot
- drive, but it's in no way connected to the Oktagon.
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- There's a special version of HDtoolbox that comes with the Oktagon, for
- setting up your scsi drives. I'd not expect it to see your IDE drive.
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- My 500Mb scsi hard drive uses oktagon.device, and my CD uses
- SoftSCSI_OktagonC9XE9.device. That device name appears among the options
- offered by my Xetech CD software setup. Took me ages to get that
- configured, until a phone call to the CD supplier put me right.
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- Either I'm totally misunderstanding what you say, or it's a problem beyond
- my knowledge. I'll be interested to see what other folk have to say.
-
- John
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