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   From: jimd@panix2.panix.com   
      
   Mega STe, TT030, Stacy needing new hard drive, and an ST or so, including   
   one with a memory upgrade by JRI (John Russel Industries) personally, and   
   more than one Portfolio.   
      
   My problem has been finding drives that do not drag down the machine bus,   
   and make unpredictable things not work. When 4 gig drives were first made,   
   4 out of 12 worked on any Unix system, including Atari MiNT.   
      
   What I have found are marginal. I have bought many, through E-Bay, and   
   scrapped most of them. The ones I kept HDDriver recognizes, formats, but   
   will not partition, since some of the full command set do not work on   
   these drives. So, I use ICD Pro Tools to format and partition, and if for   
   more than four partitions, I add two partitions not enabled, and the fact   
   that the last two partitions are not recognized when one boots into   
   HDDriver has no effect.   
      
   This is from a TT030, running MiNT, with an internal 4-gig drive   
   partitioned to C-J with ICD Pro Tools, with two extra not-enabled   
   partitions, (K and L) and a 4-gig external drive partitioned to K and L   
   as LNX partitions with ICD Pro Tools, and all of this boots and runs   
   under HDDriver.   
      
   My SCSI bus at the moment has that external MiNT drive, and the newest   
   Phillips IDE DVD and whatever drive on a icd to scsi bridge card.   
      
   This is all at the cost of about thirty scsi 4-gig hard drives, which hit   
   the trash, all to get me back to where I was years ago, with all bus   
   slots filled with something useful.   
      
   Mega Ste has a 2-gig drive. I do not remember the details, but DISCUS   
   tells me that ICD Pro Tools once partitioned it. It boots from HDDriver   
   8.20.   
      
   Jim   
      
   charlie  writes:   
      
   : >   
   : > > Hi, I have a working Mega ST 2, and wondered if anyone else has this   
   : > > particlar type of atari   
      
   : -a mega st4 is what i use   
      
   :  with a hard drive,   
      
   : -yep icd hard drive..   
      
      
   :  what hardware and driver   
   : > > software are you using,   
      
      
   : -i use the icd version 6.5  software and a "FAst" icd drive   
      
   : and how you are finding it?   
      
   : -seems to work great , there are even possailities to connect to the   
   : pc and use ---its hard drives..   
      
   : -they are affordable and reliable..now days the drives are only couple   
   : hundred   
   : -bucks ,compared to the old days when they were 1000 bucks   
      
   : -i been using this now for about three years ,   
      
   : -charles   
      
      
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