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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
- Subject: Re: Adding a 2nd PIA
- Message-ID: <92256.132901AKH104@psuvm.psu.edu>
- From: <AKH104@psuvm.psu.edu>
- Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 13:29:01 EDT
- References: <15064@mindlink.bc.ca>
- Organization: Penn State University
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- In article <15064@mindlink.bc.ca>, Tom_Klok@mindlink.bc.ca (Tom Klok) says:
- >
- >> AKH104@psuvm.psu.edu writes:
- >>
- >> This is somewhat similiar to Bob Wooley's Parallel 1050 drive
- >> upgrade....you can do alot with the second PIA in there... even perhaps...an
- >> internal Hard Drive....
- >
- >I suppose SCSI/SASI could be done with a bunch of software, but it's kinda
- >stretching things. You'd certainly want to hook up the IRQ and burn a new OS.
- >It would be a challenging hack... a MIO or BB makes a lot more sense if you
- >just want to get a HD going.
- >
- >--
- >Tom Klok MIND LINK! Support team member - Vancouver BC
- >a344@mindlink.bc.ca What, me hurry? -- Alfred E. Von Neuman
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- Well..I know of someone (2 now maybe) who are working on hooking up
- IDE drives. Very simple...except that darn 16 bit bus...thats the problem.
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