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From: rcb@netcom.COM (Roy Bixler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: TOS version 1.6 question
Message-ID: <26594@netcom.COM>
Date: 3 Mar 91 01:21:57 GMT
References: <1230.27ccffaa@sleepy.bmd.trw.com> <1991Mar01.064259.7340@ecst.csuchico.edu> <15391@chaph.usc.edu>
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In article <15391@chaph.usc.edu> baffoni@aludra.usc.edu (Juxtaposer) writes:
>In article <1991Mar01.064259.7340@ecst.csuchico.edu> ekrimen@ecst.csuchico.edu (Ed Krimen) writes:
>> 
>>The hard drive problem, which has been fixed for about six months, 
>>was NOT related to TOS, but a hardware error.  I have TOS 1.6 in my 
>>STe with a hard drive (old ICD host) and it works fine.
>
>	So what _was_ the problem - was it the DMA chip? Or something 
>completely different...?

Yes, I think that is the hardware problem he's referring to.  At
least, when I got my first STe, I had to return it for another because
my hard drive just would not work with the original.  I was told that
the problem was a flakey DMA chip (made by IMP, I believe).  By the
way, did Atari fix the problem by going to another manufacturer or did
they get a remedy with IMP?  Just curious ...

>
>
>>-- 
>>         Ed Krimen  ...............................................
>>   |||   Video Production Major, California State University, Chico
>>   |||   INTERNET: ekrimen@ecst.csuchico.edu  FREENET: al661 
>>  / | \  SysOp, Fuji BBS: 916-894-1261        FIDONET: 1:119/4.0
>
>	
>-Mike


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