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From: Yonderboy@cup.portal.com (Christopher Lee Russell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech
Subject: Upgrading SS disk-drive
Message-ID: <36830@cup.portal.com>
Date: 12 Dec 90 06:20:41 GMT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
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I have a friend who was wanting to upgrade his SS external Atari ST disk drive
to DS.  He bought a new DS mech. at a local computer shop and hooked it up
in place of the SS mech. in his drive, but it would only work very
intermittantly.  So, he went back and got a different make of DS mech. and
tried it with the same results.  Does Atari use special mechanisms?  These
mechs. that he tried, had the exact same connectors on them as his old unit.
We figured that even if the SS drive's electronics couldn't support DS oper-
ation, that at least these mechanisms would work in SS mode...  He was able
to get a directory a coupla times, but very slow.. Never able to format or
write.... ..He was successfully able to look at text file...  The were IBM
type 720K mechs. that he was trying to use...   ..Anybody know if this kinda
upgrad is possible?         ......Yonderboy@cup.portal.com