hi this is ricardo and i've been out and about looking for my old atari st and
when i finally got hold of it i found that my floppy drive here was badly
corroded and not working so with the power of the internet i went online and
i purchased a replacement from an atari reseller which would be a full 1.44
megabyte drives the atari st 520 FM in did indeed come with a 720 Meg drive so
I've taken the case off you can see on the case of the drive is quite a bit of
corrosion and removing the cables at the back to replace the floppy drive
noticing that that cable is twisted the cable on the floppy drive should be
upside down so I've got the replacement drive now and I'm going to attempt to
get that into the case I mean who cares who has got a black front on it Sony's
left side of her as a machine and only person is going to see it is me I've got
no intention to sell this piece of machinery once they get it working so by
putting in the power connector and then the floppy ribbon connector and that was
a bit of a stretch to be perfectly honest with you because it has to be
twisted from the motherboard this is not a stock Atari drive and pushed in quite
firmly and then when i do feat the drive in the Atari I've got a lying it up as
well with the screws at the base now I'm connecting the keyboard back in
which is a simple connector
it was a bit of power everything still works amazing now as I mentioned because
the cable has been twisted come on and got access just to make sure that you
know when I reset the machine it makes the encouraging clicking sounds and it's
reading the disk and it's not making any strange whirring or screeching sounds as
the other corroded drive had done this one seemed to be perfectly okay so I
connected up to a old pc with a cup hog graphics card in it which had the
ability to put an IRS connector into it so i got the IRS cable as well plug that
into the back of the pc did a reset
and then hopefully hopefully I say it'll work and there it is so the machines
back together double-click on the floppy drive and it's reading the desk
absolutely fantastic now that's not to say that the disk isn't going to work
when I've got it in there however I've got a vast selection of disks the ridge
thing like this particular disk hasn't got an auto boot on it so i will put on
the one in that has and get that loaded up one thing i'm going to check now is
my eld kempton competition probe joystick which i have removed the base
of and just checking all the connections and the leaf connectors inside these
joysticks rock solid and should last as you can see the when I riddle that
joystick it makes connection with the leaf connectors now I have padded out
sides of the joystick as well with bits of paper to stop the interior bezel
moving the buttons work and they connect with the leaf connectors no problems
there and now for the first game so I selected barbarians not thus like gnosis
barbarian however but this barbarian and as a result of that we can see it's all
now working a little bit of work left to do I think on the Kemp's and joystick to
make sure that's working and I'll try a different game just to make sure that it
is or the connectors may need to be cleaned up but I'll you with a graphic
of barbarian thanks for watching
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