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From: agjenkin@kcl-cs.UUCP (znac264)
Newsgroups: net.micro.atari16
Subject: ST's and disc drive (why wont some work?)
Message-ID: <697@neon.kcl-cs.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 14-Jun-86 08:20:40 EDT
Article-I.D.: neon.697
Posted: Sat Jun 14 08:20:40 1986
Date-Received: Tue, 17-Jun-86 23:02:46 EDT
Reply-To: agjenkin@kcl-cs.UUCP (Alun Jenkins)
Organization: Department of Computing, Kings College, University of London.
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Hi, I wonder if anyone on the net has had the same experience as
me regarding fitting your own drives to a 520STM.
I had three problems (maybe four)

	I) Getting a connector for the drive 
		A) buy a second drive cable wit  a friend and split it.
	II) Getting a drive to work
		A) Misubushi's just wont work, their spec is identical to
		   Teacs which do. (3mS track to track etc )  
                   Teacs cost a lot (150 pounds + case and 
		   PSU).So I used NEC drives (99 pound with case and leads)

	III) Decipering TOS errors
		Q) What does TOS error #35 mean etc (Heeellllllppppp)

Perhaps someone can tell me why that some drives work and some dont
even though on papaer they are identical ? also does anyone have
a list of TOS error codes and ``bomb'' codes (you know when you really
goofed up BOMB! perhaps BOMB BOMB BOMB BOMB ..... crash (after this
your begging the damm thing to give you you files back
YOU: Come on ST you know and I know you've got 36 files on that disk!
ST:  TOS error #35!
YOU: All right already just tell me how much space is on the disk?
ST:  (flicker flicker ........(isnt it quiet)....... CRASH)
YOU: Arrrghhhhh
)
help with the above will be appreciated

Alun Jenkins ..ukc!kcl-cs!agjenkins