Date   : Wed, 17 Mar 1999 02:45:15 +0000 (GMT)
From   : Brian Widdas <brian@...>
Subject: Re: 3.5 inch disc in Master

On Wed, 17 Mar 1999, John Lindley wrote:

> I was wondering. I have several disc drives lying around in various states
> of repair. One I was rebuilding was a teac double drive in which I have
> replaced the second drive. The thing is, some time ago I saw a BBC master
> with a dual disc drive that had 3.5 and a 5.25 disc drives in it. What I
> was wondering was can I build a double drive like this using a standard
> 3.5 inch drive, say one out of an A3000, so that I can transfer data by
> copying it onto old map ADFS discs.

Yes, you can. I've used a couple of off-the-shelf 720k 3.5" drives with my
Master without any problems.

> If ti is possible does anyone know an efficient way of copying data from
> adfs to dfs discs?

On a Master, *move is quite good at file copying. Or, if you still have
it, there's a menu-based file copying utility on the Welcome disk.

Brian
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Brian Widdas
Postmaster, Manchester University Computer Society