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Question about Mega ST4 and Megafile hard drive

Just looking for some advice. I'll be picking up a Mega ST4 and a Megafile sometime within the next couple of weeks. I have no experience with the Mega ST's since I've only owned regular ST's / STE's in the past. Is there a particular version of TOS that I should be looking at getting if the Mega ST comes with an older one? Or does it matter? The reason I ask is that I've heard the Megafiles sometimes have issues with older version of TOS. I don't know what the most 'recent' version of TOS is for the Mega's, so I suppose that would be another question I have. Any other advice regarding the Mega ST's is also appreciated. It also comes with some Eiffel thing to allow connecting of a PS/2 keyboard and mouse since the Mega keyboard is not included; and also has a Viking video card in it, which is probably useless since you can't find the monitor anywhere for it. So I'll probably just use my SM124 here. Thanks.


Jason

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Jason Young
Jul 07, 2022

Had a nice surprise this evening. The Megafile 30 actually has a 60MB hard drive in it. I confirmed by looking up the drive model and it formats to 60MB automatically. Perhaps someone upgraded it back in the day. I thought that maybe it had the wrong lid on it with the Megafile 30 label, but the bottom also shows SH305, which is a Megafile 30. I wiped the drive clean and reformatted with ICD utilities. As it was, the drive had issues reading information, so must have needed a fresh format.




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