Once back home I connected it up and away I went... yes you've guessed it, it was faulty. It took me many formatting, setups and experiments to confirm the actual hard drive was useless. I took the guess the interface and power supply were working.
So I then was on the lookout for a cheap SCSI hard drive. It came
via an unusual route, whilst at a car boot sale I happen to start up a
conversation with a guy as we both stood at a computer odds and ends stall.
It turns out he had two drives for which he would let me have at a reasonable
price. So I got them, connected it into the interface and after a few attempts
got the thing working. Yes I was amazed too.
It took me a while to realise the Atari can only work with small
partitions of about 15MB or so, hence I divided my new 42MB hard drive
into 3 partitions.
Then after some time of non-use I ran the Atari to do some work with
it, only to discover the power supply had gone faulty. After some decisions,
whether buy replacement or repair it myself I decided to opt for the latter.
It turned out to be an open circuit resistor, which was a most unusual
failure, upon replacement normal operation resumed.
