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From: drp9500@isc.rit.edu (D.R. Paradis )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st,comp.sys.atari.st.tech
Subject: sickly 1040st nneds help!!
Message-ID: <1991Feb27.221113.3677@isc.rit.edu>
Date: 27 Feb 91 22:11:13 GMT
Followup-To: poster
Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology
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I have an Atari 1040st with a problem....

   It seems that the damn thing wont boot ANYTHING from the floppy
drive.  The drive checks out fine (tried it on another machine), the
controller chip is fine (replaced it).  I just checked the power supply
to see if THAT was the culprit, nope.  Checked the power line into the
drive just in case, hmmmmm I got 13 volts going to the drive instead of
12......I wonder....The drive is a Chinon model F-354 EAT (that's DSDD
to the rest of us).

  ROM chips (TOS 1.0) are fine.  Boots off a hard drive just dandy.

If I try to boot from a floppy I get a low res screen, and then I open
drive A and get 0 bytes in 0 sectors EVERY TIME!!!  I get this even if
there IS stuff on the disk.  Autoboot disks, nope.  Non-GEM disks, nope.
If I do a show info...lock up.


    HELP ME PLEASE.......I want my baby back


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