Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!sdd.hp.com!spool.mu.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!ai-lab!life.ai.mit.edu!johnb From: johnb@geech.gnu.ai.mit.edu (John Bunch) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Atari 1040 ste internal drive. Message-ID: Date: 2 Apr 91 15:44:12 GMT Sender: news@ai.mit.edu Distribution: comp Organization: The Gene Pool Management Group Lines: 32 In article johnb@churchy.gnu.ai.mit.edu (John Bunch) writes: Greetings all.... I have once again encountered problems with my STe. It seems that my internal drive has decided that it doesn' want to work any more... It ucks, caue I dont have a harddrive, so I cant even boot up... Is there some known problem with the drives in the STe? It spins up on powerup, and when the boot process tries to read the drive it makes a buzzing sound and cant access it... Thi really sucks, since I opened the machine to put in memory.... Argghhh! John I know it is rude to post a followup to your own article, but I found out what the problem was. It seems that my internal drive was bad when I bought the machine, but worked. It got progressively worse, to a state where it was no longer usable. Well it was also the reason some of my disk's were getting trashed. I went back to my Local Dealer(I know, I am Lucky!) and he replaced the drive for me free of charge, even though I opened the machine to put in my Ram! Coolness... John -- ************************************************************************ * John Bunch * 610 Morris St. * To be filled with a nifty * * johnb@gnu.ai.mit.edu * Albany,NY * quote at a later date... * * * 12208 * * ************************************************************************