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From: rich@lakesys.UUCP (Rich Dankert)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: How standard are ST drives?
Message-ID: <276@lakesys.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 21-Oct-87 23:48:56 EDT
Article-I.D.: lakesys.276
Posted: Wed Oct 21 23:48:56 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 24-Oct-87 14:44:34 EDT
References: <5894@sunybcs.UUCP> <2010@aramis.rutgers.edu>
Reply-To: rich@lakesys.UUCP (Rich Dankert)
Organization: Lake Systems, Milwaukee, WI
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Summary: They are!

>
>   Realizing that many people want to get rid of their SS drives, and
>that I could therefore pick one up cheap, I pose the following
>question to the world:
>   How "generic" are ST drives?  Can I open one and find a standard
>34-pin connector inside?  If I could easily attach one to my ATR-8000
>(CP/M machine, attaches to Atari XL), I'd pick one up pronto.
>
>--Mark K.

	The Atari 3.5 Firmey disk drives do indeed use the standard 34 pin
industry standard card edge connector. We have many people here that have 
from the very beginning of of the ST's introduction, attached 5.25 floppy 
disk drives via the inside 34 pin connector. 

	You should have no problems. Just remember that you *must format 
the drive correctly. IE: Use a DOS that will allow 80 tracks one side if 
you get the SFS354 single sided drive, and 80 tracks both sides for the 
SF314 double sided drive. I believe that MY-DOS should dothe trick.

-Rich

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