Changing the A drive

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From: Barry Lay
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 1989 20:11

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I have the following problem.  I have a Mega 4 ST with a dead internal disk
drive.  Fortunately, my hard disk autoboots, so I am not out of business,
but I occasionally like to play a game which has to boot from a floppy disk
(Falcon).  Is there a way to get the Atari to think that an external drive is
drive A?  I tried installing the external drive in the place for the internal
one, but it just spun and didn't boot.  The connectors look the same for both,
but the small connector (power?) had to be plugged in the other way around
because the indexing slot was in a different place on the external drive.
Since the light came on I presume that it was getting power ok.  

So, does anybody have any ideas for what to do while waiting for the drive
to be fixed?  If someone has figured out how to get Falcon to run from a
hard disk, that would be nice, too.

Barry

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From: barry@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca (Barry Lay)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Changing the A drive
Summary: Need to boot from external drive on Mega system.
Message-ID: <1989Dec21.201152.4270@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca>
Date: 21 Dec 89 20:11:52 GMT
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