Date   : Sun, 24 Aug 1997 04:49:37 +0200
From   : Wouter Scholten <wouters@...>
Subject: Re: BBC Micro Disk Drives and PC disk drives

Andrew de Quincey wrote:
> 
> Hi, I'm trying to connect a disk drive to a BBC B micro I have just
> recieved. I've blown an EPROM with Acorn's DNFS (DFS v 1.20), and I'm
> trying to use an old PC 5 1/4" disk drive (360k I think) with it.
> 
> I've connected the drive, but when I do *CAT on a disk, the drive
> spins up, and just sits there... not moving it's heads or anything....

Sounds like you attached the connector the wrong way!
or perhaps a drive selector link to select the drive number is
incorrect?

> Does DFS 1.20 assume you have a 1770 disk controller? The machine has

No.




Wouter