First Atari STF + Ultrasatan

[sack-c0s]

Hi folks,

 

I just got hold of a 1040STF and an ultrasatan drive (with the 8Gb preconfigured card that Lotharek supplies). It seems to mostly work, but it's a bit of a pain to get it to boot. I have to switch the machine off/on several times to try and convince the ST to see the ultrasatan, but once it has seen it then things are fine and it will boot every time if I just press the reset button to reset. The ultrasatan itself seems to go through it's own boot sequence perfectly every time judging by the lights on the front.

 

It also looks to be a TOS1.02 machine, and I'm seeing some of the weirdness that I've read about, such as being slow to read folders, or just showing them as empty so I get the feeling that a TOS upgrade might be needed here. Does the boot issue sound like something that could also be TOS version-related, or should I be looking somewhere else?

 

 

Update: it looks like the image on the SD card got corrupted, but writing other images seems to work okay. Could the old TOS be behind this?

Edited May 11, 2017 by sack-c0s

[+DarkLord]

Update it to TOS v1.04 - highly recommended!

[ParanoidLittleMan]

Old TOS will not cause data corruption - it is just little slower, can handle smaller partitions than 1.04 and later ones. So, upgrade will not solve unreliable work,

I recommend that start with power supply check and replacing capacitors by need - a must by old electronic.