Date   : Sun, 26 Apr 2009 20:16:37 +0100
From   : bbcmailinglist@... (Ian Wolstenholme)
Subject: ADFS Drive Numbers

Is there a version of ADFS which can access drives numbered 2&3
or 6&7, or is there a hardware limitation preventing this?

I tried a few weeks ago setting a set of floppy drives to ID 2 & 3 but
ADFS gave "Not found" if I tried to mount 2, 3, 6 or 7.

I've just been jiggering about with the Technomatic and if I set the actual
disc to anything other than 0 or 1, the controller won't recognise it, and if
I set the controller to anything other than 0, ADFS won't access it (although
in this case the "Not found" error does go away if I try *MOUNT 2).

If I were to happen to connect up two separate Winchester units, daisy
chaining them together (eg. to make a backup of the Technomatic!!)
what would I need to do to the drive and controller IDs?  I just had two
Winchesters on the Technomatic Adaptec controller, both set to 0 and
that gave some very funny results! It worked OK with one drive as 0 and
the other as 1, but I don't know what would happen if I put another
Adaptec controller on the 1MHz bus, since changing the Technomatic's
Adaptec ID doesn't seem to let me access it.

Best wishes,



Ian