Author: J0nny (c1059173-a.bllngs1.mt.home.com)
Date: 10-08-2000 08:23
Hi,
Steve Stupple wrote:
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> Hi
> YOu can't just plonk a 1.44 drive into an
> ST and expect it to work, even just reading
> 720K (double density) disks you need some
> modification.
I discovered this with a new Teac drive.
I went to the Teac home page, and fiddled
around until I got the jumper settings (their
site leaves a LOT to be desired). I had to
disable the "auto sensor" for the disk size.
Once I did this, the drive's secondary BIOS
was disabled and it allowed direct calls from
the machine to interpret the disk.
So, for all practical puposes, it became a
happy, little, "slam-dunk" 720k drive.
This is NOT like discovering the atom, but
since I had to hassle with it, I figure maybe
someone else might as well. Hopefully this
will save them a search.
The link is below, if anyone is interested:
http://www.teac.com/dsp/catalog.html#floppy
Thanks.
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