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    [Notator/Creator SL mailing list]

The Quantum SCSI should work fine with proper software like the ICD Pro 
Utilities or some other appropriate software.

You will then need to reformat and repartition the drive.

If u try to work around the engineering of your monitor you might 
shorten it's life. Proceed with prayer.

Dave

@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ wrote:

> My fellow Notator-ians;
>
> I have been much too silent, of late. I have been buried in a pile of 
> work, here in Toronto.
>
> I don't know how many of us were bidding against each other 2 weeks 
> ago, but I now have that Mega Ste with Notator dongle that was up on eBay.
>
> So, Hallvard and others, I'm trolling for tech advice. The Mega Ste 
> has, what might well be a defunct internal hard drive. If I'm lucky 
> it's just a disconnected wire, but if it's truly a crashed drive, I am 
> wondering if I can plug some old Quantum 85meg SCSI in there, or if 
> Atari used some other system. I remember there were very, very strange 
> connections between the hard drive proper and the DMA plug, in the old 
> Atari SLM-series drives. Did Atari get more "normal" by the time the 
> Mega Ste was made?
>
> Also, on another note: I remember back in my Atari Users' Group 
> newsletter days (who remembers the XEST fanzine these days?) there was 
> an interesting article about fiddling with the trimmers inside the 
> SM124 to expand the display. This, I understood, still only gives you 
> 640 x 400, but expands the whole image to fill most of the black 
> border in the stock display mode. I have lost that article. Did anyone 
> save a copy?
>
> Best wishes from smoggy Toronto.
>
> John S. Gray
>
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