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From: Yonderboy@cup.portal.com (Christopher Lee Russell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech
Subject: Re: Upgrading SS disk-drive
Message-ID: <36917@cup.portal.com>
Date: 14 Dec 90 15:01:34 GMT
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I started this thread by meantioning how my friend was having trouble
upgrading his SS external drive to DS.. He tried two 720K Mechs and they
both failed!  He went out and bought a 1.44M mech and tried it and it worked!
Go figure?!?!  Anyways, I guess it can be done.  He simply hooked the thing
up and it worked.  I did receive mail telling me that there are 2 types of
external drives... One has normal IBM style drives in them and another type
uses some cheaper mechs. that need support circuitry (found in the case of
the Atari drive) to drive them.  It was reported that these (the latter) type
of drive is harder to upgrade... Well, good-luck to anyone else who wants to
try this... It looks kinda hit-or-miss.. Note, this message seems to 
contradict the message concerning 1.44M drives NOT working.. who knows, eh?

               ......Yonderboy@cup.portal.com