22 Nov
2005
22 Nov
'05
8:41 p.m.
I'd forgotten about that; in ADFS-land, ADFS knew
nothing about device IDs -
everything was ID 0 and so the host adapter could still only have one device
How stupid! I wonder why they did that (after all, they allowed for
multiple floppy drives on the same controller). It's almsot as stupid as
POS haeving 2 storage devices (one floppy, one winchester) hard-coded
into the OS.
connected up to it. Maybe that was fixed for the
Filestore's firmware though,
as it always seemed like a silly omission.
According to the docs, the E01S (with the host adapter on the mainboard)
supported up to 4 SCSI drives. Now, the ROM is different between the E01
and E01S (if only because the former has a pair of 27256s, the latter a
single 27512), but I am not sure what, if any, changes were made to the
filesystem code. Certainly the host adapter _hardware_ could support
multiple devices (even on the E01 with the external host adapter). May be
worth investigating.
-tony