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From: grahamt@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Graham Thomas)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech
Subject: Re: STE and Hard Drives.
Message-ID: <3249@syma.sussex.ac.uk>
Date: 14 Aug 90 10:10:16 GMT
References: <1990Aug10.184643.11228@newcastle.ac.uk>
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From article <1990Aug10.184643.11228@newcastle.ac.uk>, by D.C.Halliday@newcastle.ac.uk (D.C. Halliday):
>>
>>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.
>>

It might be useful if someone would post Atari's suggested modification
to the net, so that people who know about these things could evaluate
and improve on it.

I have a question on the problem.  I've seen several people in the UK
mention it, but can't remember if the problem has surfaced anywhere else
in the world.  Maybe Claus Brod posted something about it, but I can't
remember if it applied to Germany or if he was just trying to help UK
users.  Is the problem limited to the UK?  I suspect not, and that the
UK bias is mainly because of the way STEs have been distributed here in
greater numbers.  But if it is a UK problem (or even a European problem)
then it might be due to differences between American and European/UK
power supplies.  (I'm probably just showing my ignorance here.)

The latest article I've seen on the problem in the printed press (From
the UK ST Club newsletter) suggests that STEs should work OK with newer
Atari Megafiles, but not with older ones, SH205s, SH204s and most
third-party manufacturers' products.  If I didn't know Atari were so
under-resourced, I'd suspect a conspiracy.  (Oops!  This is straying
from the 'tech' area.  Sorry.)

Graham
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