Hard disk drivers

[Yippee]

I used ICD drivers on my TT with real SCSI platter drives for years with no problem.

However, on the Mega with Satandisk, I paid for PPera drivers, as the ICD wasnt suitable.

You didnt say if you were using physical platters or a SD based solution, or SCSI/ACSI/SD FAT32/etc.

Thank you. I tried the ICD driver, but with it, I could not run PP'S hardrive conversion of "SleepWalker" for some reason it crashed to a black screen after loading the front game screen. GemDrive works very well on my ASCISTM device, but I am going to buy PP driver because I do use PP's hard disk converted programs and I beleive he deserves support for all the amzing things he has done for the Atari ST platforms.(Also I like tinkering

[Yippee]

I used ICD drivers on my TT with real SCSI platter drives for years with no problem.

However, on the Mega with Satandisk, I paid for PPera drivers, as the ICD wasnt suitable.

You didnt say if you were using physical platters or a SD based solution, or SCSI/ACSI/SD FAT32/etc.

Thank you. I tried the ICD driver, but with it, I could not run PP'S hardrive conversion of "SleepWalker" for some reason it crashed to a black screen after loading the front game screen. GemDrive works very well on my ASCISTM device, but I am going to buy PP driver because I do use PP's hard disk converted programs and I beleive he deserves support for all the amzing things he has done for the Atari ST platforms.(Also I like tinkering

[mrbombermillzy]

I wouldnt mix ICD with PPera drivers/images. Just go with the PPera if you just want to play games from his disk images. IIRC there were 'rumours' of the driver doing some unconventional tweaking to the Atari system (I cant remember what it was now), but I havent personally encountered any problems with the driver or the images so far.

As a note on my own personal experience of ACSI2STM use:

I found GEM drive compatibility to be similar to storing data on a wax cylinder over a roaring open fireplace.

I was getting bombs just loading ET4000 drivers and 'using' the OS lightly.

However, when bashing the system with blitter writes to the gfx card memory and such, I would get corrupt assembly files (i.e. flagged to read only and not deletable). even Devpac would eventually corrupt and crash rather than load. Other problems included directory errors, non accessible files, etc.

All this disappeared when I switched to ACSI mode, although now, I cant get a GEM drive (and associated ACSI2STM injection drivers) to work in the other spare slots, despite it being allegedly possible. A shame really as the hotswap and easy PC file copy from Hatari would have been very convenient.

Also, you are meant to be able to put the ACSI HDD image (renamed to hd0.img) into a folder (acsi2stm) on the root of the SD card and it work, but I only found writing the image raw to the microSD card actually booted the image.