yonder@netcom.COM (Christopher Russell) (04/04/91)
Recently my internal DS drive in my 1040STf stopped working correctly.. I managed to waste several disks before I realized it was going, uhg.. I thought for sure it was the drive mech that had gone bad, so I got another one (actually a TEAC model, that a friend of mine had successfully used to upgrade his SS drive). Anyways, it still wouldn't work.. My hard-drive still works fine though.. So currently my bet is on the floppy controller chip (WD1772) or possible the buffer chip (U8 a 7406).. Anybody else out there think diffrently? I cannot get a drive to read or write or format. It will attempt to do all three but always fail miserably! My computer fails with three diffrenent mechs: my TEAC, my old Atari drive, or my friends external TEAC-modified drive.. My friends (520ST) will work with any of the drives.. (He swapped my old Atari mech. into his old SS drive case).. Another realted deal: my floppy light on my 1040 has always flashed very faintly while my hard-drive is on.. I seem to recall reading about his before.. Is this good, bad, or just annoying? Is a fix available? Well, any advice would be greatly appreciated, but it looks like solder sucker time to me... :-( .....yonder@netcom.com -- Christopher Russell (yonderboy) yonder@netcom.COM or clr40@amail.amdahl.com