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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech
- Subject: Re: Continuing 1.44 Drive Woes
- Message-ID: <1992Aug13.120654.3514@peponi.wcc.govt.nz>
- From: sheppard_r@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz
- Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 12:06:54 GMT
- Reply-To: sheppard_r@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz
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- References: <1992Aug11.005337.4789@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> <4228@wet.UUCP>,<92225.143240JJL101@psuvm.psu.edu>
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- In article <92225.143240JJL101@psuvm.psu.edu>, J.J. Lehett <JJL101@psuvm.psu.edu> writes:
- >In article <4228@wet.UUCP>, ekrimen@wet.UUCP (Ed Krimen) says:
- >>
- >>In article <1992Aug11.005337.4789@usenet.ins.cwru.edu>
- >>as423@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Kenneth A. Wallace) writes:
- >>>
- >>
- >>> I find myself in the same situation as J.J. Lehett, a
- >>>worthless 1.44 Disk Drive.
- >>
- >>Exactly which situation is that? Do you have an old Mega STE? Below
- >>you say you know not to buy an Ajax chip (or am I missing or forgetting
- >>something)? You need an Ajax chip for the 1.44meg drive to work.
- >>
- >
- > I would assume that the situation he is referring to (J.J.'s = me)
- >is that I have a TOS 2.05 MSTe that came with a 1.44 drive. It didn't
- >work, and I posted about this a time or two. I upgraded to TOS 2.06, and
- >even replaced the Ajax chip thinking it could be defective, so... with these
- >improvements I 'in essance' should have a reliable 1.44 drive. This is not
- >the case. I have pulled the power supply screw, I have unhooked the Hard Drive
- >from the power supply to avoid any interference from the power lines, and
- >I continue to always get a error upon formatting at track 45 when in HD mode.
- >Yes, I have tried numerous high quality HD disks.
- > I have been able to on occasion format a disk on an IBM and bring it
- >home and read all 1.44 megs succesfully... but never get a successful format
- >from the desktop.
- > I have been told that its really sound like an interference problem,
- >but with the error occuring at track 45 on formatting no matter what disk
- >I am using, this doesn't sound like it could be random interfernce, not to
- >mention that I have as I said pulled the power to the Hard Drive to reduce
- >the interfernce and still the same repeatable error. Diamond Format reports
- >the error as a cannot seek track error (I think that was it). Once it hits
- >track 45, you can hear the head going back and forth attempting to 'seek' the
- >track to no avail, and then it errors out.
- > Always on the lookout for more things to try, I have tried just about
- >everything that has been suggested so far, and I do not have another MSTe
- >available to try to swap mechs unfortunately.
- >------------------
- >J.J. Lehett : Atari's, puzzles, games, chaos, fractals, math....
- >
- > - jjl101@psuvm.psu.edu Penn State CAC
- > - aa400@cleveland.freenet.edu Atari 16/32 bit SIG Sysop
- > GEnie: JLEHETT2 Delphi: JLEHETT@delphi.com
-
- From what I have read, you also have to replace the GALL chip, and add a wire on
- the older Mega STE's, is this the case..??
-
- Roger......... sheppard_r@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz
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