SONY MPF920 "BAD DRIVES" PRE-2002.
Posted: Thu Dec 14, 2017 4:40 pm
Relating to my other thread here https://www.exxosforum.co.uk/forum/viewt ... ?f=12&t=49
I noted drives before 2002 have a Sony chip which do not work on the Atari.. I found this out many many years ago...The drives with the BH chip all work which are dated after 2002 and never had any problems with those drives.
However today I found a 2001 drive with the Sony chip, I changed the drive select ID as normal.. Now when the ST accesses the drive, it spins up but that is all it does.. Desktop just reports things like "drive a is not responding". It could be possible the drive is faulty, but as I have had this problem before and going to assume this drive does actually work.
This was the problem I had years ago with the SONY chip drives.. If anyone has any input on this then let me know if there is anything else to try.. But I do not know what.. There must be some reason for these drives refusing to work but I've never found any information as to why..
I noted drives before 2002 have a Sony chip which do not work on the Atari.. I found this out many many years ago...The drives with the BH chip all work which are dated after 2002 and never had any problems with those drives.
However today I found a 2001 drive with the Sony chip, I changed the drive select ID as normal.. Now when the ST accesses the drive, it spins up but that is all it does.. Desktop just reports things like "drive a is not responding". It could be possible the drive is faulty, but as I have had this problem before and going to assume this drive does actually work.
This was the problem I had years ago with the SONY chip drives.. If anyone has any input on this then let me know if there is anything else to try.. But I do not know what.. There must be some reason for these drives refusing to work but I've never found any information as to why..