Date   : Tue, 28 Apr 1998 12:29:20 BST
From   : Chris Thornley <osu036@...>
Subject: Re: 3.5 Inch Drives

Try connecting pin 2 of the drive to pine 34 this hould move the dischange
line from where the ready signal is 
and might help. There are also some jumper bottom right hand corner of the
bbcs keyboard pcb which you 
should fit witha block of 8 switch and there you can se the default acces
speed of the drive.

On Mon, 27 Apr 1998 21:44:03 +0100 Crispin Boylan wrote:

> From: Crispin Boylan <viewtronix@...>
> Date: Mon, 27 Apr 1998 21:44:03 +0100
> Subject: [BBC-Micro] 3.5 Inch Drives
> To: bbc-micro@...
> 
> Hi
> 
> I have connected a 1.44mb 3.5 inch drive to my Beeb, but there is a problem
> with the 1.2 DFS in that it does not wait long enough for the drive to
> spin-up, so 3.5 inch drives don't work with 1.2 DFS, they report a Drive
> Error 10 (drive not responding or ready).  It will catalogue and write
> short files, but large movements across a disk report in the error.  I'm
> not sure whether this happens with 720k drives.  I know that someone made a
> fix for this, and made an updated DFS 1.2 ROM, which if anyone has can they
> mail me a copy!  Also, does anyone know if this happens on DFS 0.9?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> 
> Crispin Boylan - viewtronix@...
> 
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> 
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