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From: joeg@lilink.UUCP (Joe Gelman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Sony DS problems
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Date: 22 Jul 89 06:15:28 GMT
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Reply-To: joeg@lilink.UUCP (Joe Gelman)
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In article <2078@dvinci.USask.CA> clay@dvinci.UUCP (Clay Cederstrand) writes:
>I recently acquired a Sony 3.5 inch double sided drive , that I have added
>on to my 520 STFM. The connecting cable I made using the pinouts given in
>the back of the Atari manual for the external drive. The drive works to a
>certain extent, I cannot format it using the built in TOS formatter at all,
>I can however format a disk using DCformat. With a DCformatted disk I can
>write to the disk, but not consistently, write errors will crop up. The drive
>works perfectly on two other computers I have kicking around, these are non
>atari computers though, but the drive does work flawlessly on them.
>
>Has anyone out there used a Sony MP-F63W-33D drive as a external drive and
>had good results......

I can't remember the exact model # of the Sony DS drive I installed, but it
had problems very much like yours. It would read previously formatted disks
with no problem, but would not format properly. A check of the disk
revealed CRC errors all over the place. 

Too bad, I had picked up the drive REAL CHEAP, and it was very well made
(all metal construction) but I needed a fully functional drive and back it
went. May have been a drive problem OR possibly there's a SONY vs. ATARI
incompatability. Any techies know the answer?

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