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Article #35055coco drives on st
From: Allen King
Date: Sat, 12 Nov 1988 21:00
Date: Sat, 12 Nov 1988 21:00
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I've been trying to attach an old CoCo Teac drive (5 1/4", 40 tracks, double sided) to my 520ST, per the notes from Ric Wheeler 23Sept88. After a little work, it will select, turn on the motor, and step. It appears to format, although I had to set the number of tracks down from 82 to 40 on 410format.prg. The problem is that it won't read data back. It appears to have trouble reading the directory. Can the Teac (model FD-55B-01-U) be made to work with the ST? I wonder now if the data rates (and perhaps sector sizes) are compatible. Will the result, if it works, be able to read IBM compatible diskettes?
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!mailrus!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!PEBBLES.BBN.COM!aking From: aking@PEBBLES.BBN.COM (Allen King) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: coco drives on st Message-ID: <8811122100.AA21402@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> Date: 12 Nov 88 21:00:20 GMT Sender: usenet@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 13