tlz@drutx.UUCP (ZrustTL) (11/04/86)
Got this in the mail and thought it would be of general interest. In case you missed it, this is a response to my article on the 3.5" DS Epson drive upgrade for the SF354. There is a problem with the non-boot drive (B:) not being recognized by the system unless a disk (even a blank one) is in it. > >From sun!atari.uucp!jwt Tue Nov 4 02:26:01 1986 remote from ihnp4 > To: sun!ihnp4!drutx!tlz > Subject: Re: Epson DS disk drive upgrade news and ?? > In-Reply-To: your article <1793@drutx.UUCP> > That is one of the problems with buying just any off-the-shelf 3.5" disk > drive for replacement in the ST. There are a couple of different types of > 3.5" drives out there (not quite as standardized as you had hoped). Some > drives will report the correct status of the write protect signal when there > is no diskette in the drive and the type that requires a diskette to be in > the drive before it returns the write protect signal. > I am not aware of an easy modification to get it to return write protect > without a diskette... when it happened to us, we returned the drives for the > ones we wanted. > Jim Tittsler, Atari Corp. {lll-lcc,sun}!atari!jwt OK, any ideas? How about just shorting out the disk in position switch? :-) -- Terry L. Zrust, AT&T Information Systems Laboratories MS 30L49, 11900 North Pecos Street, Denver, CO 80234 ihnp4!drutx!tlz Voice: (303)-538-4547