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Date   : Fri, 31 Oct 2003 09:25:06 +0000
From   : Mike Tomlinson <mike@...>
Subject: Re: Treat Me Like A Fool! writing images to a drive

In article <000301c39f28$b58052e0$1902a8c0@...>, Darren T. Brown
<darren@...> writes

>The drive is now in my PC (big ugly think in my Nokia type case! lol) I can
>format the drive to BBC format- and copy stuff from my PC onto the floppy.
>But how do we make a disk image file into a real disk?

Basically, you can't.  The BBC (in DFS mode) uses single-density
floppies, and the floppy controller in modern PCs cannot write single
density.  Have a look at http://bbc.nvg.org/xfer-conv.php3

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