Atari hard drives?

From: Lawrence Walker <lwalker_at_mail.interlog.com>
Date: Wed Jun 3 11:56:20 1998

On 2 Jun 98 at 14:22, Shawn Rutledge wrote:

> I have a local buddy who has a dying 30M hard drive on some kind of
> Atari which he says is in a rather big box (for an Atari). It is MFM
> and he wants me to sell him one of my extra PC MFM drives if we can
> figure out how to make it work. Anybody know how to go about that?
>
> Also I have an Atari 540ST, and I suppose I might like to use a HD with
> that, if it's not too hard or expensive. Anybody know where I can get a
> controller for it cheap?
>
 You need an adapter like Link2 to change from native Atari format (Atasci?)
to SCSI. Then you can use any SCSI HD and chain other SCSI peripherals to
it.
Your friends Atari possibly has the adaptek board which IIRC changed the
Atasci to SCSI and then to MFM. To my mind you don't need to bother
with the LL-HL format thing. Just format with an Atari utility. An Atari
doesn't have as many limitations as a messydoze, just an attempt by
Tramiel to lock Atari users into proprietal HDs.

SNIP
  
> > SO, do you think you have something I could buy that might get my
> > atari back up and running? I've been told that the surface of my
> > current drive is possibly too sticky but it sure looks clean.
> > I've been having to tap the side of the case for over a year to
> > get the darn thing to come up to speed but that tap no longer is
> > enough, it seems.
> >
 I believe it's called "stricktion" His best solution is to use something like
the Link2 since he could then use any SCSI HD with it. Systems For Tomorrow or
Best Electronics has them. There's also another one by a european manufacturer
whos name I can't recall

ciao larry
lwalker_at_interlog.com
Received on Wed Jun 03 1998 - 11:56:20 BST