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From: aimd@castle.ed.ac.uk (M Davidson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech
Subject: Re: STE and Hard Drives.
Message-ID: <5569@castle.ed.ac.uk>
Date: 7 Aug 90 20:31:57 GMT
References: <1990Aug3.165416.28366@newcastle.ac.uk>
Organization: Edinburgh University Computing Service
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In article <1990Aug3.165416.28366@newcastle.ac.uk> D.C.Halliday@newcastle.ac.uk (D.C. Halliday) writes:
>All  STE and Hard drive Owners I recomend you use a verify function on
>your Hard disk driver, an expplanation and question follow. (longish)
>
>I have resently purchased a Third Coast Drive (65 Meg ST277-1 using an
>ICD Advantage plus Host adapter.)

You never really mentioned what problems you had with your drive? If it
was constant write failures then this may be a fault which Atari has
actually (tried) to fix. Well, at least there is a hardware modification
suggested by Atari to get bothersome drives to work.

However, I believe Ataris instructions were somewhat confused but I'm
trying to find out currently whether I can get my Power Drive fixed.
(But in this case the problem is crashing upon reset).

When I got my STE it totally crashed my hard drive and writes always
failed. Best Prices checked my machine with a Megafile 30 and it worked,
but they sent me a new machine anyway. I've had absolutely no write
problems (or read for that matter) with the new machine. Maybe you could
ask your dealer(?) for a replacement.

Mark.