STe floppy died :(

[+orpheuswaking]

Was going to play my 1040 STe tonight and the Floppy wont read any disks. I swapped in the internals from my SF314 and I was back in action... But obviously that's not going to work long term...

 

Anyone got a spare 1040 STe internal floppy going spare? (maybe some of you that have pulled them for the HCX)

[madmax2069]

Did you try cleaning the heads or are they a total loss (if you already tried), or is it a different issue. Because 9 times out of 10 its just dirty heads that causes the drive not to read, or the heads becoming misaligned after a while of use.

 

another issue could be a slow spindle speed causing it not to read.

Edited July 23, 2010 by madmax2069

[+orpheuswaking]

Not sure how to fix misalignment or speed issues... But I cleaned the heads already.

[krupkaj]

Alison has on her pages info how to modify SONY MPF-920, so it can work with ST

http://www.logicsays.com/atari/

[amiman99]

I was able to use in Atari STF a HP - Epson SMD-340 Flexible disk drive and it works fine.

 

Its only around $15 on EBAY eBay Auction -- Item Number: 260637569785 not my auction,

also you can go to your local used PC hardware store and look at their Floppy drive bin and maybe get it for $2

 

Here is the info below....

 

 

SMD-340/SMD-349 (3.5", 1.44MB)

 

THE JUMPER BLOCK IS LOCATED ON THE REAR OF THE DRIVE BETWEEN THE

POWER CONNECTOR AND THE DATA CONNECTOR.

____________________________________________________________________

| |

| |

| |---------| ------------------------- ------------------- |

| | o o o o | | 9|10|11|12|13|14|15|16| | ooooooooooooooooo | |

| |---------| | 1| 2| 3| 4| 5| 6| 7| 8| | oxooooooooooooooo | |

| ------------------------- ------------------- |

|____________________________________________________________________|

^ ^ ^

| | |

(POWER (JUMPER (DATA

CONNECTOR) BLOCK) CONNECTOR)

 

DRIVE SELECT

 

------------------------------------------------------------------

JUMPER BETWEEN 14 & 15 | DRIVE SELECTED BY DS0

JUMPER BETWEEN 15 & 16 | DRIVE SELECTED BY DS1 (DEFAULT)

JUMPER BETWEEN 6 & 7 | DRIVE SELECTED BY DS2

JUMPER BETWEEN 7 & 8 | DRIVE SELECTED BY DS3

------------------------------------------------------------------

[+remowilliams]

I was able to use in Atari STF a HP - Epson SMD-340 Flexible disk drive and it works fine.

 

I also have used Epson SMD-340s and they've worked out great. Only issue I had is PASTI imager capability, but that isn't going to be an issue for most folks.

[+orpheuswaking]

I was able to use in Atari STF a HP - Epson SMD-340 Flexible disk drive and it works fine.

 

I also have used Epson SMD-340s and they've worked out great. Only issue I had is PASTI imager capability, but that isn't going to be an issue for most folks.

 

Well actually PASTI is one of the main reasons I wanted to get it working, I have some games that I said I would image for Atarimania. However I do have a working sf314 external for the B drive and that apears to work ok for now.

 

I think I'll grab one of the drives you mentioned (also there is a guy in the UK who has some on Ebay premodded)... Although I am planning on getting the HCx flopy emulator so I may not even want to replace the drive after all... Any thoughts on that?