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Hi,
On perjantai 27 kesäkuu 2014, Thomas Huth wrote:
> Am Thu, 26 Jun 2014 20:17:37 +0300
> schrieb Eero Tamminen <oak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> > No. Everything Hatari emulates is listed in the documentation:
> > http://hg.tuxfamily.org/mercurialroot/hatari/hatari/raw-
> > file/tip/doc/manual.html#Features
>
> Actually Hatari supports the extended ACSI protocol for supporting disks
> bigger than 1 GB, see commit d33662b5c5c1 (contributed by Markus Heiden
> in 2011).
Could you update the Hatari features list accordingly? :-)
> > If you're considering contributing emulation for host adapter(s)
> > to Hatari, please go ahead! :-)
>
> Well, you could also consider that there are real ACSI devices that
> support this protocol extension - it's just that there never were such
> devices. So the only disks that could be used with more than 1 GB were
> SCSI disks with a special host adapter that implemented that protocol
> extension to translate it to the SCSI protocol.
- Eero