Date   : Thu, 22 Jul 1999 13:18:17 +0100
From   : Jon Bloomfield <Jon.Bloomfield@...>
Subject: Re: DFS Installation

The drive has a switch on the back to select 40/80 tracks. I've tried both
positions to no avail.

I also ran a disk verifier from a cumana utilities disk (fortunately this
was located in track 0), and it also reports all tracks except 0 as failing.

> -----Original Message-----
> From:     James Fidell [SMTP:james@...]
> Sent:     Thursday, July 22, 1999 1:19 PM
> To:       Jon Bloomfield
> Cc:       bbc-micro@...
> Subject:  Re: [BBC-Micro] DFS Installation
> 
> Quoting Jon Bloomfield (Jon.Bloomfield@...):
> 
> > I have just installed a DFS to my BBC Model B, and am having some
> problems
> > with it.
> > 
> > The interface seems to be working more or less, because I can see the
> > catalogue entries of my disk collection, but the drive is refusing to
> access
> > any tracks other than track 0. I know the drive is OK, because it works
> fine
> > on my BBC master. I can even write small files onto the disk and read
> them
> > back, but as soon as the beeb tries to step the head I get an error
> message
> > (error 18).
> > 
> > Does anyone know enough about disk-drives/DFS to offer some suggestions
> ?
> 
> Could be 40/80 track confusion ?
> 
> James.
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