| Title: | Atari ST, TT, & Falcon |
| Notice: | Please read note 1.0 and its replies before posting! |
| Moderator: | FUNYET::ANDERSON |
| Created: | Mon Apr 04 1988 |
| Last Modified: | Tue May 06 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 1433 |
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Hello all,
I am writing this for a friend of mine....can you upgrade
a 1040st (or even a 520st) to more than 1 meg of mem???
If so what chips do you need and what else has to be done.
In other words do you have to by special add-on boards or
can someone with reasonable soldering skills carry out this
mod???
Thanks,
Jason.
Oh yes another quick question. Is there any software arond that
will allow you to format ONE partition on a hard disk? (Genuine
Atari disk??)
| T.R | Title | User | Personal Name | Date | Lines |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 385.1 | Yes | PRNSYS::LOMICKAJ | Jeff Lomicka | Thu Jan 26 1989 12:21 | 20 |
Yes on both counts. To upgrade to 2= MB, you remove a half-meg of 256Kx1 RAM's, and replace them with 1024Kx1's and a LOT of green wires. To upgrade to 4MB, you remove all 32 of the 256Kx1 rams and replace them with 32 1024Kx1 rams and a whole lot of green wires. An article explaining the 2.5mb upgrade in detail appears in one of the recent on-line magazines posted by Buzz. Check 331. The Supra hard disk drive tools work fine on the Atari hard disk, and seem to be freely available. (Well, I didn't pay for my copy anyway. Apparently they give it away on Compuserve, and make their money selling the corresponding hardare.) One of the tools (suputil, I believe) has an entry called "zero a partition", which re-writes the file structure data in the partition without formatting the drive. It corresponds to the VMS INIT command. I don't know if it works if you are using Atari's hard disk driver, but it works great with Supra's. | |||||
| 385.2 | Found the article. | PRNSYS::LOMICKAJ | Jeff Lomicka | Thu Jan 26 1989 13:49 | 3 |
The article on upgrading the 1040 to 2.5MB is in issue 2 of STZMAG, which is in VINO::PORT:[BHAMILTON.ST]STZMAG.002. | |||||