NEC Floppy Disk Drive at the Atari

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Date: Tue, 13 Jan 1987 17:05

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Subject:  NEC Floppy Disk Drive at the Atari
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Hi,

    I just bought a NEC FD 1036 A disk drive and I added it to my
ATARI 1040 STF as a second disk drive.

    The drive is running fine and smoothly (much less noise than from
the built in drive), but the machine doesn't recognize media changes
on the second drive.

    I saw magazine advertisements where they offered NEC drives that
were changed for media changes to be recognized.

    How do I have to modify the drive so that the media changes will
be recognized? I'm pretty good in soldering, and I'm definitely not
afraid of soldering on the disk drive's electronic board.

Any hints are welcome.

Ralf Bayer (The Care-Baer)
Computing Center @ the Technical University of Darmstadt, West Germany

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