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- From: hutch@bellman.lanl.gov (John Hutchinson)
- Subject: Re: Need advice on 1.4M drive****
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.154703.15076@newshost.lanl.gov>
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- Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory
- References: <1992Nov16.164756.1@bcvms.bc.edu>
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 15:47:03 GMT
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- In article 1@bcvms.bc.edu, faype@bcvms.bc.edu () writes:
- >I have an ancient ST520, and need a new external drive. Does anyone know
- >if I can swap in a 1.4Meg instead of the 720K? Do I need a new driver,
- >even if I just want to read/write 720K disks?
- >-pete
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- Pete, as a minimum, you would need the new 1.44 drive mechanism, TOS 2.06,
- a TOS adapter kit (like the CodeHeads TEC or similar), an AJAX chip (disk
- controller) and other stuff I'm sure. Also, unless you get the specific
- Epson model drive mech, you'll have to do some surgery on your 520 case to
- allow for the disk eject button to fit. I'm not a hardware guru so others
- here could give you more specific details.
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- I can give you advice, however... don't do it. If you have your heart set on
- a hi-density drive, then just buy a MegaSTe or wait for the Falcon.
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- BTW, you most likely have TOS 1.0 in your early 520ST.
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