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Conference 7.286::atarist

Title:	Atari ST, TT, & Falcon
Notice:	Please read note 1.0 and its replies before posting!
Moderator:	FUNYET::ANDERSON

Created:	Mon Apr 04 1988
Last Modified:	Tue May 06 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	1433
Total number of notes:	10312

592.0. "Berkeley info wanted" by IMPULS::MCGONIGLE () Wed Sep 13 1989 09:07

Has anyone had any experience, good or bad, using the Berkeley BMS200 hard 
disk interface to an Atari 1040ST DMA port?

I would like to connect it to an Adaptec 4000 module driving a hard disk
with an ST506 interface.

Anyone using this configuration successfully?

Thanks in advance.
Leo
DTN: 289-1113

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592.1	Yes I am	SVCRUS::ADAMS	beam me up	`Wed Sep 13 1989 16:34`	23
	I have been using the BMS-200 since April on my Atari 1040. I have the Adaptec 4000 controller and two scsi drives attached. So far the only problem that I have encountered is that my clock battery has gone bad. The support over the phone was very good. I wanted to position my drives as far from the ST as possible (I hate noise) so they told me what I needed to run a twenty foot cable between the BMS-200 and the Adaptec controller. Just a 50 pin ribbon cable and a coleco 5volt power supply which I got at Radio shack for $5.00. Then I built a small box/holder for the BMS-200 and powered it from the coleco supply while the adaptec module was powered by my drive power(an old pro enclosure works just fine with the adaptec module at an angle). The hardware was built very well and went together easily but the software was not as good as some. However any hard disk drivers will work such as ICD ar supra. I am using ICD's along with the superboot program. I have had no "noise" problems over the extended bus nor suffered any loss of data. Now I am just waiting for TOS 1.4 so I don't have to run FolderXXX everytime I boot. The BMS can accomodate up to seven scsi devices as well as any DMA devices may be attached to its DMA output port such as laser printer...etc. I hope this helps. Bob

    I have been using the BMS-200 since April on my Atari 1040. I have
    the Adaptec 4000 controller and two scsi drives attached. So far
    the only problem that I have encountered is that my clock battery
    has gone bad. The support over the phone was very good. I wanted
    to position my drives as far from the ST as possible (I hate noise)
    so they told me what I needed to run a twenty foot cable between
    the BMS-200 and the Adaptec controller. Just a 50 pin ribbon cable
    and a coleco 5volt power supply which I got at Radio shack for $5.00.
    Then I built a small box/holder for the BMS-200 and powered it from
    the coleco supply while the adaptec module was powered by my drive
    power(an old pro enclosure works just fine with the adaptec module
    at an angle). 
     The hardware was built very well and went together easily but the
    software was not as good as some. However any hard disk drivers
    will work such as ICD ar supra. I am using ICD's along with the
    superboot program. I have had no "noise" problems over the extended
    bus nor suffered any loss of data. Now I am just waiting for TOS
    1.4 so I don't have to run FolderXXX everytime I boot. 
     The BMS can accomodate up to seven scsi devices as well as any
    DMA devices may be attached to its DMA output port such as laser
    printer...etc. I hope this helps.
    						Bob