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All, I just scored a cheap Atari Mega STe. It boot up fine to the green screen. However, I show a Floppy A and a Floppy B and ho Hard Drive, while I have 1 Floppy and 1 Hard Drive. Strangely, if I click on the A drive it opens, click on the B it shows an error and then it works and A doesn't work. If I then click the A, it will error then work and back to where I started.

 

Any ideas on what might be connected wrong to cause a ghost floppy to appear?

 

Thanks in advance. Hoping to get this beauty working like my other Ataris.

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Man! Where are people scoring all all these STes and Mega STes, especially cheap ones? I keep checking ebay but, even in the rare instances when I find one, I see them going for $300+

 

I'd love to find a decent price on one that needs a little TLS and give it a good restoration.

 

I'm sorry, but I can't help you with your disk problems. I'll keep an eye on your post though, as I'm working on restoring a 1040 STf that's having some floppy issues, and I watch any thread that's even remotely disk related.

 

Congratulations on your find and I hope you get your issues squared away soon.

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I replied to a Craigslist ad for an SC1224 monitor, and when I arrived, the seller showed me a shed full of Ataris. He sold me the SC1224, 2 SC124 Monochrome monitors, a small color CRT TV (he insisted I take it) and the Mega STe with 4MB for $200. Comically he really just wanted someone to clear out his shed.

 

I have a 1040STe, and an UltraSatan, but have 0 experience with an internal hard drive.

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The A and B drives show up no matter if you have 1 or 2 drives connected. Do you have a 2nd floppy drive attached?

 

If you have a HD and C does not show then the driver is not installed or the drive is dead. You need the Atari HD tools disk to see if you can reinstall the HD.

 

http://downloads.atari-home.de/Scene_Demos/!FALCON/!1ST1%20Collection/systemdisks/

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Thanks all. I guess I never realized both A & B popped up.

The reason that you will find both an A and a B drive, despite only one physical drive being present in the system, is so you can copy files between floppies and duplicate disks. When you drag something from A to B, or use a disk copier from A to B, the system will read from the source disk A and then ask you to insert a disk into B. Just swap floppies in your one physical drive and the system will treat the newly inserted floppy as if it actually in a different drive. Be careful though. I've accidentally overwritten more disks than I care to admit by losing track of which is which. =)

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