Easiest way to decipher if Mega STe has 1.44 Floppy

[AtariSociety]

Purchased a MegaSTe last year and previous owner told me it had a 1.44mb floppy.

 

I have no 1.44mb floppies laying around to try and erase and format, which I am guessing is an easy way to figure out if indeed I have a 1.44mb drive.

 

Any easy way to decipher if I have 1.44?

 

I do know I am running TOS 2.05. I understand using a 1.44mb drive may require TOS 2.06 but looking at past emails from the PO he said he tested and was indeed 1.44.

 

Any advise would be cool.

 

TJ

[anzac]

i think if you go to the format disk menu, there might be the option for "high density" grayed out until you insert a 1.44mb floppy

 

though, with TOS 2.05 it should be one of the early models of MSTe that came with a 720kb drive. could have been upgraded in the meantime, though...

[tjlazer]

You can try to look inside the drive to see if there is a switch for the HD detect. Right side of drive.

[Christos]

I think that even with tos 2.05 you can run a floppy formatter program and it will show you. Try jay formatter

 

http://phoenix.inf.upol.cz/~opichals/jay/

[ParanoidLittleMan]

To activate HD mode tab 7 on DIP switch must be on. My Mega STE was with TOS 2.05 and DD drive by factory.

Looking floppy drive model can give definite answer.