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From: pegram@kira.UUCP (Robert B. Pegram)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: PCF554
Message-ID: <1990Dec17.171945.9559@uvm.edu>
Date: 17 Dec 90 17:19:45 GMT
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From article <1990Dec16.234939.22473@watmath.waterloo.edu>, 
by ljdickey@watmath.waterloo.edu (L.J.Dickey):

> I recently bought a PCF554 disk drive that is designed for 5.25
> floppy disks.  It did not come with any instructions.  Can you
> help me to get it going?  Is there some software needed?

Yeah, you need something to slow down the step rate to 6 msec from 3
and a 40 track formatting program.  Check out the various PD Control
panels, at least one of them (schizo??) can set the head step rate.
DC formatter will format 40 tracks, as will Hypercopy and several
other formatters.  DC formatter can also write an MS Dos bootsec and a
bootsector for the ST to set the step rate to 6 msec.  Oh yeah,
NeoDesk 3.01 also has *everything* you need to handle 360K 5.25 disks.

good luck,

Bob Pegram

pegram@griffin.uvm.edu
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