Date   : Wed, 17 Mar 1999 14:10:36 +0100
From   : "Mark Usher" <marku@...>
Subject: Re: 3.5 inch disc in Master

Hi

> Has anyone tried a 1.44M PC drive on a BBC and found it didn't work ?
> It might be worthwhile keeping a record of drive models that do work.
I wrote a lengthy article discussing this. It can be downloaded from the BBC
lives.
ftp....\bbc\doc\DiskDriveAndDFSGuide.zip

There is a table at the end that lists many many drives up to the 720k
variation.
I have a master list here on my hard drive that also contains the 1.2 &
1.4MB drives.

The criteria for the 1.4MB High density drives to work on a BBC is that it
must be able to switch to double density. Usually this is automatic when you
insert a DD disk.

Mark