Need help with Atari 1050 disk system

From: Dave Dunfield <dave04a_at_dunfield.com>
Date: Sun Apr 18 18:10:29 2004

Hi Adrian,

>> #1) Can anyone tell me the power requirements of this drive?
>If you go to www.classiccmp.org or google and search the archives you'll
>find a thread or 2 on power supplies for the Atari 400/800 - these are the
>same ones that run the 1050 floppy. The one I have here that recently
>powered my Atari 400 and 1200XL is marked as 9.5V 1.5A but it's acting up so
>my DMM won't tell me whether it's centre positive or not.

Thanks for the info - I did a bit of looking and found several references once
I mentioned "Atari 400" - turns out the supplies are AC, which probably explains
why your DMM is having trouble determining the polarity.

 
>> need some sort
>> of boot disk... Anyone out there with one that can make a
>> copy or send an
>> image (Can Atari images be read/written on a PC's drive?)
>
>I don't think so, you might need an SIO2PC cable to do that. Hopefully Curt
>will be along with more info shortly, as long as he's been allowed back in
>after his out-of-office faux pas the other week :)

Ok. I'll do some more looking around as well. Do you know if there are any disk
I/O functions build into the ROMs of the computer and/or drive (like the C64),
or do I absolutely need a boot disk in order to make the drive do anything (so
I can figure out if it works or not)?

Regards,
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