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From: andy@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Andy Gray)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: sickly 1040st nneds help!!
Summary: Check hard drive
Keywords: floppy hard drive boot
Message-ID: <11016@jarthur.Claremont.EDU>
Date: 28 Feb 91 19:09:39 GMT
References: <1991Feb27.221113.3677@isc.rit.edu>
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In article <1991Feb27.221113.3677@isc.rit.edu> drp9500@isc.rit.edu (D.R. Paradis ) writes:
>I have an Atari 1040st with a problem....
>
>   It seems that the damn thing wont boot ANYTHING from the floppy
>drive.  
             [misc. deleted]

>  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.

I get this kind of behavior if I try to boot a floppy when the hard disk is
turned off.  Have you tried disconnecting the hard drive and booting from
floppy, or powering up the drive and pressing the key sequence to initiate a
floppy boot (CTRL-SHIFT-ALT on Supras)?

					-- Andy

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