SF354 convert to DS/DD

amiman99

Posted August 11, 2009

Hi,

My drive finally gave out, would not format disks anymore, also the belt broke too. After replacing the belt with rubber band, it made it spin, but still no format anymore.

So I installed a DS/DD drive (HD too) Epson SMD-320 into it, it works fine in Single Side Mode, but it won't format in Double Side.

Can someone tell me what else I need to do for Atari ST recognize that I have Double Sided drive. I read some other forums that I need to only do the swap, but is not working like that. In the Atari pin outs I did see pin for "Side 0 Select", but on the floppy pin out there is no pin "Side 0 Select". Extra pins I found were: "Density Select" and "Disk Change/ Ready"

Also the ribbon cable is too short and I can't do the twist, I need some ribbon extender, because the other side of the ribbon is soldered.