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#AMax 'n' hard drives

    15-Dec-89 18:54:22
Sb: #78819-#AMax 'n' hard drives
Fm: Steve Bennett/SYSOP 76004,3260
To: Steven D. Kapplin 70055,1021
The problem with hard drive access under A-Max isn't a particularly easy one to solve. The main obstacle is that you need to write a driver for all the various hard disk boards on the Amiga to interface with them. (On the Mac, they don't have to worry about such things because a SCSI interface is standard equipment at a fixed address, etc.) To do that, one needs to be highly familiar with the Macintosh device driver setup, the way that A-Max works, and have detailed documentation on the hard disk controller boards. I'm sure they are working on this, but it will take time.