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- From: bmarcum@world.std.com (Bill Marcum)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
- Subject: Re: MIO and Hard Drives.
- Message-ID: <Bto07F.LtD@world.std.com>
- Date: 27 Aug 92 23:06:49 GMT
- References: <01GO1K2SGCGI934UR3@edinboro.edu>
- Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
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- In article <01GO1K2SGCGI934UR3@edinboro.edu> A644690C@edinboro.edu ("Adam J. Conover") writes:
- >Someone mentioned that you need to have a SCSI Drive WITHOUT the embedded
- >controller for use with the MIO.... ICD's newest HD formatter (HDFMTPH9.COM)
- >has an option for 'Seagate Embedded Drives'. I have never tried using a
- >SCSI drive (I have an Adaptec 4000a) so I don't know if it works.
- >HDFMTPH9 and HDFMTPH8 are both greatly improved HD formatters over those
- >that were included with the MIO.
-
- Just to avoid confusion, if it's a SCSI drive, it has an embedded controller.
- MFM and RLL drives are the ones without embedded controllers, so for them
- you need a controller board in addition to the MIO or Black Box. And some
- SCSI drives will not work with the MIO because they can't handle 256 byte
- sectors, but the Black Box interface will work with those drives.
-
- Bill Marcum bmarcum@world.std.com
-