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From: swood@vela.acs.oakland.edu ( EVENSONG)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech
Subject: Problems with second drive
Message-ID: <5489@vela.acs.oakland.edu>
Date: 21 Mar 91 14:55:39 GMT
Reply-To: swood@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Scott Wood - EVENSONG)
Organization: Oakland University, Rochester MI
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About a year back, I bought a used atari 520 STfm with 1 Meg memory, that
has a non-standard internal drive.  I recently got a ss/dd drive to hook up
to the B drive port, and all hell broke loose.  Though I have managed to
have limited problems with the internal ds/dd, they have been limited.  I 
hope to go inside and clean the connections, but in the meantime, if anyone
knows of any reasons why the addition of the extra drive might cause my
machine to have distorted data read/write and to give "drive not responding"
errors, please let me know.  (even when I disconnect the b: and reboot, the
internal still gets some errors.)

When the b: drive is connected, the a drive tends to read alright with an
occasional "... not responding" error, however, when I format the a: drive
to 2 sides, disconnect the b: and reboot, the system will not even bring up 
the full desktop (no icons at all)

thanks in advance

swood
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