drp9500@isc.rit.edu (D.R. Paradis ) (02/28/91)
I have an Atari 1040st with a problem....
It seems that the damn thing wont boot ANYTHING from the floppy
drive. The drive checks out fine (tried it on another machine), the
controller chip is fine (replaced it). I just checked the power supply
to see if THAT was the culprit, nope. Checked the power line into the
drive just in case, hmmmmm I got 13 volts going to the drive instead of
12......I wonder....The drive is a Chinon model F-354 EAT (that's DSDD
to the rest of us).
ROM chips (TOS 1.0) are fine. Boots off a hard drive just dandy.
If I try to boot from a floppy I get a low res screen, and then I open
drive A and get 0 bytes in 0 sectors EVERY TIME!!! I get this even if
there IS stuff on the disk. Autoboot disks, nope. Non-GEM disks, nope.
If I do a show info...lock up.
HELP ME PLEASE.......I want my baby back
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