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From: depeche@quiche.cs.mcgill.ca (Sam Alan EZUST)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Single-sided atari drives
Message-ID: <2593@calvin.cs.mcgill.ca>
Date: 22 Mar 90 13:57:53 GMT
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Reply-To: depeche@calvin.cs.mcgill.ca (Sam Alan EZUST)
Organization: SOCS, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
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In article <633@ksr.UUCP> fay@ksr.UUCP (Peter Fay) writes:
>Has anyone tried upgrading one of those old cruddy single-sided Atari
>external drives to a double-sided drive by just pulling out the old
>drive and inserting a 720K TEAC or whatever? Does it work with no
>hitches? How about a 1.2 Meg drive - anyone tried that?
>
I tried taking out the chinon 720k drive which was built-in to my 1040
and replacing it with a panasonic 720k
(the stupid drive burned out) and THAT
didn't work... The cables fit perfectly, but when I turned my computer on,
the drive would just spin infinitely - never seeking. I tried this
on another panasonic - same thing. I think standard IBM drives
don't work properly on the ST - perhaps some jumpers must be set
but the techie folks at the store I bought the drive from had no idea
how to do it.

S. Alan Ezust                                |  depeche@calvin.cs.mcgill.ca
McGill University School of Computer Science |  Montreal, Quebec, Canada
If your only tool is a hammer, all your problems begin to look like nails.
				Corollary: 
If you do it all yourself, sooner or later you'll need a bigger hammer.