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From:Ray Tunstall
Date:27 May 2001 at 17:13:35
Subject:Re: 4-way HD interface

Hello dave@blitz-2000.co.uk,

On 27-May-01, you wrote:

>d --- In amigactive@y..., Ray Tunstall <raytunstall@f...> wrote:
>d> new one so I got the one from Power Computing, wich uses EIDE99
>d> software.. When run and installed it seems to want to split my 20gb
>d> HD into 5 logical HD's which is already partitioned with all my
>d> software on.
>d> If I let it do this then I will lose all my installations of

>d If you switch on your computer and hold down the left mouse button,
>d you should get the prefs program for the 4xEIDE driver. Set the option
>d to "no split".
<snip>
>d Thats as far as my knowledge goes though - I don't know if the second
>d IDE channel works properly in no split mode, or if you can use OS3.5+
>d scsi.device or PFS3DS on drives on the second channel.

But will that work as you have to SKIPROMUPDATES scsi.device in the ss so
it intercepts calls to scsi.device.

Regards,



Ray



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