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From: turner@imagen.UUCP (D'arc Angel)
Newsgroups: net.micro.atari16
Subject: Re: Re: extra "raw" disk drives
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Date: Fri, 17-Oct-86 19:16:57 EDT
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Posted: Fri Oct 17 19:16:57 1986
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> Paul Swanson of Nite-Lite Systems (617) 663-4221 (BBS line) has done some
> interfacing of "foreign" disk drives to the ST.  I think this includes IBM
> PC drives (5.25 inch).  He of course would prefer to sell you an interface
> rather than telling you how to design one, but he certainly could answer your
> questions if he has the time.
> 
> -John Sangster
> jhs@mitre-bedford.arpa

it was written up with only 2 omissions in an old issue of antic (i can give
you the issue # if you want), the first omission was that the atari
disk drives use cmos level signals so you need to stick a buffer chip
in between the drives and second you need to set the access time to 6
ms. there was a pgm called sixms.prg to do that posted to the net, i
have a copy if you need it.
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