Date   : Tue, 13 Jan 1998 23:29:17 +0000
From   : Andrew de Quincey <adq@...>
Subject: Re ADFS Format

>>> I think that BeebDOS (Available from the BBC lives!) will format 
>>> disks on a PC to various BBC formats.
>>>
>> A long time ago I had that program, but it was rather limited - in 
>> order to format or write BBC disks, you are supposed to have a DD, >> not
 HD drive on a PC. And even at that time nobody had XT 
>> computers any more. 

As I remember when experimenting with this, you need a single density
 controller in order to read BBC DFS 40 & 80 track disks. You need to get an
 XT disk controller card, and modify it slightly, since such cards don't
 read SD disks by default.

If anyone's interested, I can dig out the modification you have to make. 
If does actually work; I could read BBC disks on my P200 based PC...