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    From Janis Kracht@1:261/38 to Andy Ball on Fri May 15 18:59:48 2015
    Hi Andy,

    How large a hard disk can the Atari ST use? Related:
    were there link adaptors that didn't require parity checking
    to be disabled at the disk drives?

    There's an FAQ here that might help:

    http://atari.org/hosted/quickfaq/stfaq_3.htm

    Take care,
    Janis

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  • From Andy Ball@1:261/38 to Janis Kracht on Mon May 18 22:36:48 2015

    Hello Janis,

    How large a hard disk can the Atari ST use? Related:
    > were there link adaptors that didn't require parity
    > checking to be disabled at the disk drives?

    JK> There's an FAQ here that might help:
    > http://atari.org/hosted/quickfaq/stfaq_3.htm

    That looks really helpful. Thanks!

    -Andy Ball

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  • From Janis Kracht@1:261/38 to Andy Ball on Tue May 19 00:02:34 2015
    Hi Andy,

    How large a hard disk can the Atari ST use? Related:
    were there link adaptors that didn't require parity
    checking to be disabled at the disk drives?

    There's an FAQ here that might help:
    http://atari.org/hosted/quickfaq/stfaq_3.htm

    That looks really helpful. Thanks!

    Glad to help :)

    Take care,
    Janis

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  • From Drew Klenotic@1:2215/1701 to Janis Kracht on Thu Jun 25 04:31:00 2015
    On 15 May 15 18:59:48 Janis Kracht wrote...

    Hi Andy,

    How large a hard disk can the Atari ST use? Related: were there
    link adaptors that didn't require parity checking to be disabled at
    the disk drives?

    There's an FAQ here that might help:

    http://atari.org/hosted/quickfaq/stfaq_3.htm

    Take care, Janis

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    To which Drew Klenotic replies...

    It really depends on the driver and hardware... some host adapters have more limitations than others. However, they are still making updated drivers and with those you can often get drives just about as big as you want. If you use Mint or Linux even better. If you want to get more specific on what you have or what you want to do, just let me know and I'll do my best to help.

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  • From Andy Ball@1:261/38 to Drew Klenotic on Sun Jul 5 22:29:04 2015

    Hello Drew,

    DK> It really depends on the driver and hardware... some
    > host adapters have more limitations than others.

    Sadly I no longer have an ST. I do still have some SCSI
    hardware though and was wondering what might work if I managed to pick up an old STFM or STE and then bought some sort of link adaptor for it.

    DK> However, they are still making updated drivers and
    > with those you can often get drives just about as big
    > as you want. If you use Mint or Linux even better.

    I used to use MiNT with TOSWIN, which let me run
    multiple TOS or TTP applications at the same time. I never did get a multitasking AES.

    Thanks,
    -Andy Ball

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