Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!mips!spool.mu.edu!munnari.oz.au!comp.vuw.ac.nz!actrix!Roger.Sheppard From: Roger.Sheppard@bbs.actrix.gen.nz Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech Subject: Re: STe Internals Message-ID: <1991May16.124338.15664@actrix.gen.nz> Date: 16 May 91 12:43:38 GMT References: <13023@uhccux.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu> <1991May15.055715.4021@ecst.csuchico.edu> Sender: Roger.Sheppard@actrix.gen.nz (Roger Sheppard) Organization: Actrix Networks Lines: 30 In article <1991May15.055715.4021@ecst.csuchico.edu> ekrimen@ecst.csuchico.edu (Ed Krimen) writes: > In article <13023@uhccux.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu> kiki@uhunix1.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu (J. Wine) writes: > I read in one of the on-line magazines a couple of months ago that Jim Allen > had developed a 14meg upgrade for the STe and a 10meg upgrade for the MegaSTe. > I couldn't understand the difference, since I would expect the MegaSTe to > be able to be upgraded with more RAM, but I haven't heard anything since. > Perhaps these are related. > -- > ||| Ed Krimen [ekrimen@ecst.csuchico.edu or al661@cleveland.freenet.edu] > ||| Video Production Major, California State University, Chico > / | \ SysOp, Fuji BBS: 916-894-1261 > TWO WEEKS UNTIL GRADUATION!! Well the latest STE's here in NZ. now have Brass inserts (3) for the Screws that hold down the Main PCB. these can be seen if you turn over the machine, as they come though the bottom, also with a newer type Epson disk drive, now has a blue plasic cover over the motor, this drive will give you 84 tracks. The Sony Drive will give you 82 track and the Mitsumi will give you 81. The early Epson dives can have problems with a PC conector to drive PCB, (Drive will not stop), just remove this connector and clean with contact cleaner, problem was intermitent index pulses. I don't like any of the newer Epson drives, they use a rack and pinion mechanism to move the head, this can cause hairs to get caught in the rack and pinion gears. -- Roger W. Sheppard 85 Donovan Rd, Kapiti New Zealand...