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From: apratt@atari.UUCP (Allan Pratt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Attaching a CHINON drive to the ST
Keywords: ST, CHINON, DISKDRIVES
Message-ID: <1326@atari.UUCP>
Date: 30 Jan 89 23:05:29 GMT
References: <973@laura.UUCP>
Reply-To: apratt@atari.UUCP (Allan Pratt)
Organization: Atari (US) Corporation, Sunnyvale, California
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In article <973@laura.UUCP> scm1817%marvin.irb@unido.uucp (Chris Schmidt) writes:
> I bought a chinon drive model FB 354 and attached it to my ST.
> Now my ST does not recognize a diskchange with this new drive (it only does
> with write-protected disks)

This is a known problem with some (all?) Chinon drives Atari bought
(and, alas, shipped).  Go back to where you bought it and/or an Atari
dealer to get it fixed or replaced. 

You can tell you have the problem by doing this:

	Get into a shell or program (not the desktop).
	Put a blank, write-enabled disk in the drive.
	Get a directory of that drive (a file selector will do).
	Remove the disk, then put it back in (still write-enabled).
	Get another directory of the drive.

If the select light doesn't come on before the second (empty) directory
listing appears, you have the bad drive. 

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Opinions expressed above do not necessarily	-- Allan Pratt, Atari Corp.
reflect those of Atari Corp. or anyone else.	  ...ames!atari!apratt