Hello all,
After about a year of waffling, I finally got around to setting up my old MegaSTE and 1040STF. Unfortunately, the 1040STF doesn't want to output video any more, so I'm putting that one aside for now. The MegaSTE - after being in storage for close to 20 years, booted up fine and everything still seems to work OK.
I now want to start setting up the UltraSatan I bought from Lotharek, and eventually replace the internal hard drive in my MSTE with the internal UltraSatan. Before I do that, however, I have a couple of questions for those who might have already gone through this process:
1) I ordered the UltraSatan from Lotharek with the flash cards included. Did Lotharek do any basic setup of the flash cards already? If I plug the UltraSatan into the MSTE with his cards, is there already a basic drive setup that will show up on the Desktop?
2) I want to back up everything from my internal hard drive onto the UltraSatan card. What would be the best way to do this? I have both an external and an internal UltraSatan, so I was going to connect the external unit to the MegaSTE, back up everything from the hard drive to the external unit, then remove the hard drive and install the internal UltraSatan. My only concern is what could happen if I connect the external UltraSatan to the ACSI port, while the internal hard drive is still connected at the same time. Will there be a conflict? Can I muck up either of my drives? My internal hard drive is partitioned into C:, D:, E: and F: drives, and I also have a RAM disk as G:. What will the UltraSatan show up as if I connect it to the external ACSI port?
3) I know that there are a couple of software packages out there that people are recommending to format the UltraSatan flash cards, but can the regular Atari hard disk setup program work as well? My problem right now is that my MegaSTE is living in its own bubble, with no easy way to get 3rd party software on to, or off of, it.
Thanks for any suggestions or advice!