Tominator Posted October 21, 2018 Share Posted October 21, 2018 All, I just scored a cheap Atari Mega STe. It boot up fine to the green screen. However, I show a Floppy A and a Floppy B and ho Hard Drive, while I have 1 Floppy and 1 Hard Drive. Strangely, if I click on the A drive it opens, click on the B it shows an error and then it works and A doesn't work. If I then click the A, it will error then work and back to where I started. Any ideas on what might be connected wrong to cause a ghost floppy to appear? Thanks in advance. Hoping to get this beauty working like my other Ataris. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bfollowell Posted October 21, 2018 Share Posted October 21, 2018 Man! Where are people scoring all all these STes and Mega STes, especially cheap ones? I keep checking ebay but, even in the rare instances when I find one, I see them going for $300+ I'd love to find a decent price on one that needs a little TLS and give it a good restoration. I'm sorry, but I can't help you with your disk problems. I'll keep an eye on your post though, as I'm working on restoring a 1040 STf that's having some floppy issues, and I watch any thread that's even remotely disk related. Congratulations on your find and I hope you get your issues squared away soon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tominator Posted October 21, 2018 Author Share Posted October 21, 2018 (edited) I replied to a Craigslist ad for an SC1224 monitor, and when I arrived, the seller showed me a shed full of Ataris. He sold me the SC1224, 2 SC124 Monochrome monitors, a small color CRT TV (he insisted I take it) and the Mega STe with 4MB for $200. Comically he really just wanted someone to clear out his shed. I have a 1040STe, and an UltraSatan, but have 0 experience with an internal hard drive. Edited October 21, 2018 by Tominator 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bfollowell Posted October 21, 2018 Share Posted October 21, 2018 Man! That was quite the find, and for a heck of a price! Congrats! I guess I'll keep looking and hoping. Hopefully, someone more knowledgeable will respond soon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tjlazer Posted October 22, 2018 Share Posted October 22, 2018 (edited) The A and B drives show up no matter if you have 1 or 2 drives connected. Do you have a 2nd floppy drive attached? If you have a HD and C does not show then the driver is not installed or the drive is dead. You need the Atari HD tools disk to see if you can reinstall the HD. http://downloads.atari-home.de/Scene_Demos/!FALCON/!1ST1%20Collection/systemdisks/ Edited October 22, 2018 by tjlazer 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ParanoidLittleMan Posted October 22, 2018 Share Posted October 22, 2018 Yes, TOS will show A and B always, so in case when there is only 1 drive attached. And will ask to swap disks ... Forget internal drive - if it is original it's only 46 MB, and likely dead. Just attach UltraSatan and enjoy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tominator Posted October 23, 2018 Author Share Posted October 23, 2018 Thanks all. I guess I never realized both A & B popped up. I'll ignore that part and start to see what I can do with the internal HD. I have a few spare non-parity old school HDs. The community here is awesome as always. Tom Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pixelmischief Posted October 23, 2018 Share Posted October 23, 2018 Thanks all. I guess I never realized both A & B popped up. The reason that you will find both an A and a B drive, despite only one physical drive being present in the system, is so you can copy files between floppies and duplicate disks. When you drag something from A to B, or use a disk copier from A to B, the system will read from the source disk A and then ask you to insert a disk into B. Just swap floppies in your one physical drive and the system will treat the newly inserted floppy as if it actually in a different drive. Be careful though. I've accidentally overwritten more disks than I care to admit by losing track of which is which. =) 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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