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From: yonder@netcom.COM (Christopher Russell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Floppy drive trouble
Summary: Help with screwed floppy disk in 1040
Keywords: floppy, drive
Message-ID: <1991Apr3.185901.12568@netcom.COM>
Date: 3 Apr 91 18:59:01 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  UNIX System {408 241-9760 guest}
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Recently my internal DS drive in my 1040STf stopped working correctly..
I managed to waste several disks before I realized it was going, uhg..

I thought for sure it was the drive mech that had gone bad, so I got another
one (actually a TEAC model, that a friend of mine had successfully used to
upgrade his SS drive).  Anyways, it still wouldn't work..  My hard-drive
still works fine though..  So currently my bet is on the floppy controller
chip (WD1772) or possible the buffer chip (U8 a 7406)..  Anybody else 
out there think diffrently?  I cannot get a drive to read or write or format.
It will attempt to do all three but always fail miserably!  My computer fails
with three diffrenent mechs: my TEAC, my old Atari drive, or my friends 
external TEAC-modified drive..  My friends (520ST) will work with any of the
drives..  (He swapped my old Atari mech. into his old SS drive case)..

Another realted deal:  my floppy light on my 1040 has always flashed very
faintly while my hard-drive is on..  I seem to recall reading about his 
before..  Is this good, bad, or just annoying?  Is a fix available?

Well, any advice would be greatly appreciated, but it looks like solder sucker
time to me... :-(     
			.....yonder@netcom.com
-- 
Christopher Russell (yonderboy) yonder@netcom.COM or clr40@amail.amdahl.com