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In article <7APR92231720@acad3.alaska.edu> fnjlh1@acad3.alaska.edu writes:
>Keywords: dead ROM??? 
>News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.4-a3  
>
>    I tried to plug in a 1.44M 3.5" floppy into a SF314 chaissis recently, and
>now my used-to-be 2.5M ST is behaving oddly.... NeoDesk reports 2.6M (thats ok)
>with 2.1M free (that ok, too) until I run any size program, then Neo sez I have
>37548 free. I'm also getting slower disk operations, with warning of disk doom.
>
>    I'm confused, and my ST is dazed. Please help!   Have I totally screwed the
>pooch and blown away my ROMS (old style 1.0, 6 of 'em). Anyone have any
>compatibles to sell????          Thanks!         j harris/fairbanks

I don't beleive you could possibly blow away your ROM's by doing what you did.
I am a tech, so I'm not just guessing ( and I'm not infalable either :).
I would say your problem came not from hooking the disk up, but possibly
when you had the cable hooked up backwards.  If I remember right, you did say
in your first message that you tried both cable orientations, didn't you?
Now I have hooked up floppys up backwards on PC's with no ill effects, but
it could POSSIBLY cause trouble.  Not to the ROM's though.  Maybe to the
power supply, disk controller IC, and I think the sound chip (it's direct
connected to the disk in someway, isn't it?).   I don't have an ST schematic,
YET (believe me, I'll get one someday!) so I'm going by descriptions I've read
in the `ST Internals' book.  

OR - Perhaps you should recheck the way you re-connected the regular floppy.
Cable may be loose, etc. 

Regards,
Doug Plate