Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!dali.cs.montana.edu!rpi!uupsi!cci632!ritcsh!ultb!drp9500 From: drp9500@isc.rit.edu (D.R. Paradis ) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: TOS version 1.6 question Message-ID: <1991Mar1.055535.29321@isc.rit.edu> Date: 1 Mar 91 05:55:35 GMT References: <1230.27ccffaa@sleepy.bmd.trw.com> Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology Lines: 23 In article <1230.27ccffaa@sleepy.bmd.trw.com> jharres@sleepy.bmd.trw.com writes: >I recently purchased an STE which has TOS v1.6 in it. I under stand there >is a problem in using a hard drive with this version. What are its >symptoms? I believe I read that version 1.62 was to fix this problem. If >so how does Atari handle the fix? Is it a warranty item, requiring me to >take the box to the dealer for shipment to Atari? Or what? > >Jim Harres jharres@doc.bmd.trw.com > according to Atari, ALL STe units in stock have TOS 1.62 which does correct this problem. This problem existed on the early batches of the STe. It has been fixed since. If by some chance yo have one of the affected units, Atari will replace it. -- | "Trust, faith, understanding, reasonableness,& respect have been more| | effective in tearing down a concrete wall than the barbed wire, | | machine gun nest, bureaucracy, and mines were at keeping it up." | | Just imagine what it could do to this bathroom. |