jflemaire

atari-forum.com is no longer accessible for me, unless I use a proxy. For some reason, it seems that my IP is blocked. I can access the site from work without problem, though. This is really a pain, since I now have to enable a proxy to access atari-forum, and then disable it because I haven't yet found a proxy that works reliably on all sites.

You can get ResourceMaster directly from the author's site: http://www.ardisoft.de/ Any RSC editor will allow you to create multiple resource files, obviously, one for each language, but RSM has a special mode that makes it easier. As far as multi language apps go, you can study GEMDict's http://www.gemdict.org/ C code, but you'll need MiNT and a network connection to make it run.

You can skip NVDI by holding the right Shift (or both Shifts, not sure now) before it loads.

Glad we could help. And yes, termination issues are notoriously complicated with the TT :-) As for partitioning, TOS on the TT will accept 512 MB for whatever partition, even the boot one (I'd go for 511 to be sure, Hddriver on my Falcon considers 1024Mb to be *over* 1 Gb, apparently, but ICD may be different). However, you might not need that much space on a boot drive. Have fun.

Definitely looks like a termination problem. I used an internal drive with an external Zip drive for years without any problems. I *think* the external unit must be terminated but not the internal one. An I *think* that in the absence of an external unit the internal one must be terminated. And I *think* that the TT itself always gets id 7. I known, that's a lot of thinking but it's been years since I fiddled with that. Anyway, you should be able to find information about this on the web. It's a recurring issue. JFL

ICD is more modern and implements stuff like XHDI so I'd definitely go with ICD.

Did you ever heard of a ST to SCSI adaptor? I've got one in my Megafile 44, made by Atari. I never said that there was, si I don't see where you're going. There is one in HDDRIVER, as I wrote. Anyway. All this is of no importance for Megamania, is it? The drive in question will work beautifully in his Atari and that's the important. May I suggest you brush up a bit on Atari hard drives usage? And please try to read what was actually written before mis-interpreting what you obviously misunderstood.

Wrong. This is true only for ST(e). Actually, it's 8192 Gb for SCSI (with HDDRIVER). 2048 is for IDE drives. Wrong again. Both the MegaSTe and TT are limited by TOS to 512 Mb. Only TOS 4.x (Falcon) can access 1 Gb.

There are no reasons why the drive should not work. As for capacities, TOS can not handle partitions larger than 512 Mb on the TT, so you'll have to create 8 512 Mb partitions. More modern OSes (read MiNT and MagiC) do not have such limitations, you can use a 4.5 Gb partition with them. In a nutshell: as long as you use modern software you can do whatever you want with virtually any drive you may find on the market. Under TOS and with the Atari hard disk driver, there are some limitations.