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From: gjwelych@SUNRISE.ACS.SYR.EDU ("Welych, Gregory J.")
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: about ST disk drives.....
Message-ID: <8712211937.AA01474@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
Date: 20 Dec 87 23:38:00 GMT
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Reply-To: "Welych, Gregory J." <gjwelych@sunrise.acs.syr.edu>
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Hi all....

I have had one of my disk drives die on me, and rather than try to get
it fixed, (it was only a single sided drive anyways) I decided to
buy a cheap(er?) double sided drive. I hooked the new drive into
the little converter card inside an Atari drive, and connected
the power supply up. It works fine except for one slight problem
which can cause MAJOR problems with certain software.
The problem is this:
   Say I boot up with disk A in drive A, and disk B in drive B.
   ( drive B is the new drive ) 
   Then after I get the desktop, I change drive B's disk to disk C.
   ( I have a window automatically opened for drive B on the desktop)
   Then I hit ESC to get the new directory, but it doesn't know
   I changed the disk. I am assuming that the disk drive has not reported
   media change to the ST so it doen't think that there might have been
   a switch.

Now to my main question:
   What in the Atari drives senses the change of media?????????!!????
   And how does the drive signal this to the ST?????

Thanks in advance for any help,

Greg Welych.

Internet:  gjwelych@sunrise.acs.syr.edu
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