John.Bunch@samba.acs.unc.edu (BBS Account) (08/25/90)
Hello.... I seem tro have a problem with my st. I was using it last night and all of a sudden I could no longer access the floppy drives... So I shut it off and tried rebooting. I still could not access the drives. The weird part is when it boots up, it recognizes the drives being there I just cant do anything with them? It always boots in low res and I tried creating a folder on the disk and was not able to. Also when I opend a window with a directory it showed me nothing.... I am fairley sure it is not a problem of the drive, because I have two and trie hooking them both up alone and got nowhere. Anybody got any clues? I think it may be the DMA chip? John John.Bunch@samba.acs.unc.edu
stephen@oahu.cs.ucla.edu (Steve Whitney) (08/26/90)
In article <920@beguine.UUCP> John.Bunch@samba.acs.unc.edu (BBS Account) writes: >Hello.... > >I seem tro have a problem with my st. I was using it last night >and all of a sudden I could no longer access the floppy drives... >So I shut it off and tried rebooting. I still could not access the >drives. The weird part is when it boots up, it recognizes the drives being >there I just cant do anything with them? It always boots in low res >and I tried creating a folder on the disk and was not able to. Also >when I opend a window with a directory it showed me nothing.... I am >fairley sure it is not a problem of the drive, because I have two and trie >hooking them both up alone and got nowhere. Anybody got any clues? > >I think it may be the DMA chip? > >John > >John.Bunch@samba.acs.unc.edu heh, heh, heh. I haven't seen this one in awhile. If you're getting windows that say 0 bytes used in 0 items, you probably need the "drop test" fix. Early STs had trouble with chips coming unseated. To fix the problem you describe, you can generally either open up the ST and reseat the chips (DMA chip only?) or you can pick it up about an inch or two off the table and drop it. That fixes my sister's ST every time. --Steve P.S. You might also try a different cable... I've had trouble with one before. From: stephen@oahu.cs.ucla.edu (Steve Whitney) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech Subject: duh References: Sender: Followup-To: Distribution: na Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Keywords: Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech Subject: Re: Atari 1027 printer on an ST? Summary: Expires: References: <38218@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> <56862@microsoft.UUCP> Sender: Followup-To: Distribution: na Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Keywords: In article <56862@microsoft.UUCP> darekm@microsoft.UUCP (Darek MIHOCKA) writes: >In article <38218@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> stephen@oahu.cs.ucla.edu (Steve Whitney) writes: >>My Atari BASIC Biorhythm program from the June 1986 ANTIC would be nice ~~~~~ <- meant ST BASIC >>with plotted output. :-) (Any of you remember that?) >> >>Perhaps a driver for the Xlator cable would work? ~~~~~~ <- obvious mental lapse > > >You mean the Xformer Cable? Yes, it supports the 1020 plotter. I have >one myself and have used it to print out stuff on the ST. All you have >to do is run the Xformer 130XE emulator and run your Biorhythm program >directly on the ST with theplotter hooked up, and you should get the >printout you want. > >- Darek > Sorry, Derek! That's exactly what I meant, but I also meant ST BASIC... not Atari BASIC. I'd like to write native ST stuff for the 1020. What the heck? I have to waste my time on something... >---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Darek Mihocka (206)-885-5893 All views expressed are my own. > Branch Always Software, 14150 NE 20th St. Suite 302, Bellevue, WA 98007 >---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Steve Whitney "It's never _really_ the last minute" (())_-_(()) UCLA Comp. Sci. Grad. Student | (* *) | Internet: stephen@cs.ucla.edu UCLA Bruin--> { \_@_/ } GEnie: S.WHITNEY `-----'