How to be useless

[Petari]

And atari-forum is ...  Why, oh why !
Greenious the 'HW guru' has no clue, ah, this is not HW, sorry 

[Ronald J. Hall]

And atariage still 'delivers' : Connecting 4 drives at once
 Huh - I was writing already 10 years ago that avoid connecting 2 or more hard disks on 1 port of Atari ST(E) machines - because they are old, and extra load may cause unreliable work, or even some failure by components (in adapters too).  And now, when it is old some 35 years 4 drives ...  Why doing it at all ? Only clever thing with so old drives is to save/copy valuable data from them to some newer storage (someone said SD card ?), and then put them aside, in museum.

I'm not sure why Rcamp is trying to use 4 Megafiles either. Look at all the space and electricity that will take up. He would be far better off going with one of the many newer mass storage solutions available these days.

I did have a Megafile 60 and a Megafile 30 together one time but that was waaaay back in the early 90's. Even then, one of them kept overheating and would have to be shut down occasionally to let it cool off.   

[Petari]

And more crap from AA :  More bad answers

Forrest wrote:  " ... The ICD supports up to 16 (?) hard drive partitions, ranging in size from 16 MB to 2 GB. ... "
 Count of supported partitions depends from TOS, TOS version in first place. And it is known thing. Just not at idiot forums.
 Partitions sizes - same, max partition size depends from TOS and TOS version in first place. And no, no 2 GB partition size with ST, STE . 512 MB is max . TOS 4.04 supports max 1 GB partitions, but it is for Falcon, what has no ACSI port, so ICD driver works not with it.
 This is really about 1000-st bad posting about it at AA. What is goal of admin ? Big count of posts instead correct replies, knowledge ?  Just pathetic.

[Ronald J. Hall]

I have to admit that it's pretty surprising, as long as the ST
has been around, that there's still misunderstanding about TOS
and it's specifications for hard drive use.

All a person has to do is google for 5 minutes and the info is
all there...