We offer a complete inventory of 8 Bit Atari Disk drive repair parts (down to component level, Switches, I.C. Chips, plastics....).  Not all of the hundreds of Atari Disk Drive parts we carry are listed here.  If you do not see the Atari Disk Drive part or item you are looking for see the Best Rev. 10 Catalog or E-Mail us at:  Sales

Atari 8 Bit Disk Drives and SIO Cables

                              

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Atari 810 Disk Drive (Reconditioned) Includes New U.S. 110 Volt Power Supply, New Atari US 810 Owners Manual and New Atari 3 foot I/O Cable   A810 $99.00
Atari 810 New Drop in Tandon 5 1/4 Drive transport Mech. (810's with Garage Door type of front opening door) CA017297 $35.00
Atari 810 New Drop in MPI 5 1/4 Disk Drive Drive transport Mech. (810's with push button opening front door) CA014072 $35.00
Atari 810 Tandon 5 1/4 Disk Drive Mech. Drive belt FC100196 $6.00
Atari 810 MPI 5 1/4 Disk Drive Mech. Drive belt FC100031 $6.00
Atari 810 Tandon New Upgraded / improved front lift door.  Cures the known problem with old Atari 810 Tandon doors with white pivot pins that break close to 100% of the time. FA100467 $4.95
Atari 810 New Sideboard Populated with upgraded plug in Data Separator board and the final version "C" version 810 OS Chip. (no RF Shield) This is a new drop in replacement Atari 810 sideboard for both the Tandon and MPI version Atari 810 Disk Drives.  See Ataro 810 Tech Tip below CA014834 $29.00
Atari Engineering Grass Valley 810 Analog Rear board upgrade set.  New Rear 810 Analog Rear Power board, New Top Analog R/W board, New 10 Pin Jumper cable, Installation Instructions.  Upgrades / Replaces the older Atari 810's with Single Power board that 100% Fails.  See Atari 810 Tec tip below! CB101128 $25.00
Atari 810 Field Service Manual.  Covers both the Atari 810 Tandon and MPI version Disk Drives.  Also covers 810 pre Analog (single rear 810 Power board) and the newer Analog (3 board set) Rear Power boards.  810 Schematics, 810 parts listing and 810 pcb silk screens.  Has 36 pages of 810 troubling shooting 810 Flow charts with Oscilloscope scope pictures.  240 page Rev. 3 Final 810 Atari Field Service manual produced. FD100003 $30.00
Atari 810  Factory Diagnostic Cartridge.  Interpreter, Sector Editor, 810 / 1050 Cartridge based Disk Drive Mech. RPM Speed test and Seek exerciser.  This is an Atari disk drive Tech's must have tool.  If you do not have one of the old disk based 810 / 1050 speed test programs, this is the only way to easily adjust the Atari 810 or 1050 Disk Drive Mech. critical RPM setting to Atari Factory Spec's.  (C) CB101129 $20.00
Atari 810 Factory Manufacturing Test Cartridge.  810 / 1050 Disk Drive number test (for internal Atari disk drive number slide select switches), Alignment test (requires an Oscilloscope and 5 1/4 Alignment disk), Interchange Test Disk Manufacturing Test (no print out) and 810 Sideboard ROM level check.  (C) CB101130 $24.00
Atari 810 CPS (Atari Consumer Products Service) Field Exerciser Diagnostic Cartridge.  810 Alignment (requires an Oscilloscope and 5 1/4 Alignment Disk and Stepper program), Atari 810 approx. 1 hour and 20 minute Read / Write Burn in Test with Atari print out results.  A must have tool to fully burn in and fully test any repaired Atari 810 Disk Drive.  Requires a preformatted 5 1/4 Disk.  Best recommends you only use the highest grade DSDD 5 /14 disk (Sony or Verbatim brands) for this test.  We have seen new generic SSSD 5 1/4 Floppy Disks wear out during this test and give you false 810 Diagnostic results.  This is Best's Electronics bench mark test with printed out test results for any Repaired, Upgraded or Reconditioned Atari 810 disk drive we have sold for the last 27+ years. FD100006 $24.00
Atari 810 Factory Disk Drive Check Out Diagnostic Cartridge.  810 / 1050 Disk Drive number test, Alignment / Azimuth Test (Requires  Oscilloscope and 5 1/4 Alignment Disk) Speed Test, quick Format Write / Read Test (No print out) and Analog Alignment Test (Requires Oscilloscope and 5 1/4 Alignment Disk). (C) CB103035 $24.00
Dysan 5 1/4 inch SSSD 810 Alignment Disk (D) CB101156 $40.00
Atari 810 / 1050 / XF551 New in the Factory Sealed box 10 Sony or Verbatim 5 1/4 DSDD Soft Sectored disks with Hub Rings, Disk Sleeves, Write Protect labels and Disk labels.   CB101883 $10.00

Best Atari 810 Tech Tip:  Atari 810 problems fall into a few different basic reasons / problems.  A dead (no LED or LED's works but no mechanical movement) 810 is usually a bad rear Atari 810 Power board.  It could also be a combo of both a bad rear power board and sideboard problems.  A mechanically working 810 disk driver that have Read (boot errors) or Write (can not format a SSSD 5 1/4 Floppy disk, which is one of the true tests of the health of any Atari 810 or Atari 1050 Disk drive) problems is usually a 810 5 1/4 Disk Drive mech. problem.  But could also be a combination of both a bad 810 disk drive mech. and bad 810 sideboard problems.  Early made Atari 810 Disk drives had two known major problems.  On early production runs of the 810 sideboards, they did not have the 810 Data separator board plug in upgrade daughter board (the WD 1771 disk controller chip plugged directly into the side board).  The second known problem was the single rear 810 power board.   Both were known to cause all kinds of problems with early Atari 810 disk drives and the only way to fix them was to add the 810 Data separator board and install the 810 improved rear power board.  The Atari 810 disk drives without the Data separator board had all kinds of Read and Write 810 Head problems.  The single 810 rear power boards had all kinds of speed problems that seem to change all of the time without making any kind of speed adjustments on the single rear 810 power board.  Both known 810 problems we latter fixed in the Atari 810 production run with a new plug in 810 Data Separator board (which cured most of the 810 Read and Write electronic data problems).  The second Atari 810 Major problem was cured with what is known within Atari Engineering as the Atari 810 Grass Valley board set (where in California it was designed).  This Atari Engineering Grass Valley 810 new board set cured all of the Atari 810 speed problems.  It consisted of a new redesigned / improved replacement 810 rear power board and a second daughter board (sat over the 810 Disk Drive mech. and was connected to the rear 810 board with a 10 pin wire harness and to the 810 Head wire harness).  The second Grass Valley 810 daughter board helped to separate and boost the Atari 810 disk drive Head signals.

Atari 1050 Disk Drive (Reconditioned, Like New Condition) Includes U.S. 110 Volt Power Supply, 3 foot / I/O Cable and 1050 Owners manual with DOS 2.5 Disk.  See above pictures.      A1050 $150.00
Atari 1050 Disk Drive (Reconditioned, Like New Condition) Only, Less Power Supply, Less I/O Cable and Less Owners manual.     A1050-LS $130.00
Atari 1050 Field Service Manual.  Covers both the Tandon and World Storage versions of the Atari 1050.  67 pages FD100330 $25.00
Atari 1050 CPS (Consumer Products Service) Diagnostic Disk.  Auto test mode Check / Does, MPU / Controller  / Drive Status, Command Test, Write Protect Test, Motor Start Test, Motor Speed Test, Stop / Settle test and Track 00 test.  A must have for any Atari 1050 Disk Drive owner.  FD100690 $15.00
Atari 1050 5 1/4 Tandon Drive Mech. Drive belt (Atari 1050's assembled in Singapore) CB101140 $6.00
Atari 1050 5 1/4 World Storage Drive Mech. Drive belt (Atari 1050's assembled in Hong Kong) CB101149 $8.00
Sam’s Computerfacts English Version Service Manual 1050 Disk Drive. Sections covered: General Operating Instructions, GridTrace Location Guide Main Board, I.C. Pinouts and Terminal Guides, Line Definitions, Logic Chart, Parts List, Photos Chassis - Top View, Photos Main Board, Safety Precautions, Schematics, Schematic Notes, Test Equipment and Troubleshooting. 25 Pages. CB101163     $24.95
Atari XF551 DSDD disk drive (Reconditioned, Like New Condition) Includes U.S. 110 Volt Power Supply, 3 foot I/O cable and XE DOS / Owners manual.. XF551-R $175.00
Atari XF551 DSDD disk drive, New Includes U.S. 110 Volt Power Supply, 3 foot I/O cable and XE DOS / Owners manual.  See picture below. XF551     $199.00

Atari 400 / 800 / XL / XE / Disk Drive 1 foot SIO cable (13 pin Female to 13 pin Female cable)  Best used for Atari 8 bit Disk drives stacked on top of each other or side by side.  Gets rid of some the extra cable length / mess behind the disk drives.  CB101276 $8.00

Atari 400 / 800 / XL / XE / Disk Drive / Peripheral SIO Devices 3 foot SIO cable CA014122 $10.00

Atari 400 / 800 / XL / XE / Disk Drive / Peripheral SIO Devices 5 foot SIO cable CX81 $11.00

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