Do you have any other Atari "bus" devices you can try (modem/serial port,
another disk, ...)? The next step in diagnosing your problem would be to
determine whether the problem is the Atari 800 itself, the disk drive or
the cable. Divide and conquer!
Jay
At 05:25 PM 5/16/99 -0400, you wrote:
>Hello, I've been playing with my Atari 800 a bit, and the frustrating
>thing is I can't get the disk drive to work. When the drive is on and with
>a disk in it (is spins itself up alright) and turn on the computer, it
>doesn't try to read the disk (my last Atari, and 800XL I think.. did). In
>BASIC, any disk command (XIO, open, load, save, etc) give me an error that
>I looked up and means something to the effect of 'drive not present'. I've
>tried several utilities (myutil) on my PC to write the disks with mydos or
>ataridos, but I don't know if they're working as I can't write or read any
>disks.
>
>Any ideas, please?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Kevin
>
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Received on Sat May 22 1999 - 07:54:12 BST