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- From: Guy Tanner <bgt@cvget.demon.co.uk>
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- Subject: Re: ATAPI package and a A4000. Does it work?
- Date: Sun, 10 Mar 96 23:50:56 GMT
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- John McCrea (john@jmccrea.demon.co.uk) wrote:
- :
- : From the Atapi docs...
- :
- : *** BEGIN QUOTE ***
- :
- : Starting with version 6.x, atapi.device is able to support up to
- : 4 units. This may be up to two harddisks or any number of CD-Roms.
- : ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- : *** END QUOTE ***
- :
- So as I read this, all the atapi.device can do is add CD-Roms to the A4000, and
- that it can not handle 3 or more IDE Hard Drives.
-
- Would it be possible to use a mountlist as a means to replace a CD-Rom with a
- third Hard Drive. ie replace the DosDriver CD0 with one specific to the third
- HDrive added.
-
- :
- : PS Does your 4000 cold-boot, and if so, what make and model is your boot
- : drive.
- :
-
- Yes, my A4000 does boot from cold, but it waits a full 10 seconds before it runs
- through the startup-sequence. The two drives I'm using are as follows,
-
- As the main boot drive, a Conner Peripherals 1275 (This causes the slow boot
- problems, by removing this and replacing with any other drive removes the slow
- cold-boot.)
-
- The Slave is a Western Digital ST3660A 575 Mb.
-
- It's a bit of a pain, but nothing to get bothered about.
-
- Cheers Guy.
-
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