Atari TT030 install media... - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

6 May 2004

At 20:40 06/05/2004 +0000, you wrote:
...

I know very little about these machines, but one just turned up on the
doorstep for the museum. Power supply checks out, I get a white display
(so something useful looks to be happening in the video circuitry), but
I get no spin-up from the hard disk (A Seagate ST-157 SCSI drive) and a
steady floppy drive light.

I'm not sure if the hard disk is fixable yet - no idea if it's a head
crash or whatever. There seems to be little about these drives on the
web, but I did see one comment that they were famous for stiction - in
which case maybe I can give it a hand in spinning up...

Does anyone have install media if it comes to that though? I can always
drop a different SCSI drive in it (I think I have a spare 160MB drive
somewhere), but I don't have any floppies for this machine and I gather
they never were particularly common, sitting somewhere between the ST
and the Falcon...

cheers

Jules 
Try putting a blank 720K MS-DOS formatted diskette in the floppy drive.

I don't have intimate experience with the TT030 (haven't found one yet), but I
believe it has the operating system in ROM, just like the ST series, which I do
know fairly well.

I do know that with my ST machines, the screen just shows "white" unless there
is
a diskette in the drive. Then the system will come up. The ST (and I believe the
TT) uses a FAT format, and can read/write DOS disks - a blank formatted disk works
on the ST, so I'm guessing it might work on the TT as well.

Failing that, I do know someone locally with a TT030 who might be able to send an
install disk image...

Regards,
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