Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!ccut!wnoc-tyo-news!toumon!wucc!ytsuji From: ytsuji@wucc.waseda.ac.jp (Y.Tsuji) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech Subject: Re: 1.44 MB project Keywords: Floppy Disk Message-ID: <5827@wucc.waseda.ac.jp> Date: 11 Jun 91 10:36:51 GMT References: Organization: The Centre for Informatics, WASEDA Univ. Lines: 33 I posted an appeal for beta testers of a 1.44 MB drive hack six weeks ago and have received 23 responses. I admit the instructions were not intelligible to people who had never used soldering irons, but to be honest, I had expected at least one person would succeed to build a fine adaptor or at least one person would be asking me to lend the adaptor. I shouldn't have been surprised to realise how really few people are seriously committed to ATARI ST. After all, we haven't had real applications other than music and printing. No more of gripes, but just let me issue a final appeal. Is there anyone out there (developers are most welcome) who would like to build a 1.44 MB floppy drive adaptor? Mine works perfectly (now designed to be plugged into the socket of WD1772). It works perfectly (without any software tuning at all) with TOS and Minix with standard high density drives (it can boot from a high density floppy too). I do not like to send documents to info-leaches, but if you are willing to to buy a high density drive (and a WD1772-0202) I would very much like to share the pleasure of using the industry standard floppy disks even if your technical background is poor. Incidentally, the minimum model requires soldering 3 14-pin chips and optimum model 6 chips (about 84 soldering points). The minimum model preserves the original WD1772 and has 6 jumper lines while the optimum model has its own Wd1772 socket but has only one jumper line. Write to me if you are reading my article the first time and interested. Tsuji ytsuji@cfi.waseda.ac.jp P.S. I don't write to people who don't write to me.