Date   : Wed, 09 May 2001 14:35:02 +0100
From   : "Chris Richardson" <chris@...>
Subject: Fw: 3.5" floppies and IDE hard-drives

There is also the point that HD discs can corrupt after a while if used on a
BBC as DD. I have had to rescue a few for people. The catalogue area goes
first.

Chris

8-Bit Software, the BBC and Master Public Domain Library
http://www.8bs.com

----- Original Message -----
From: Tom Seddon <T.W.Seddon@...>
To: bbc-micro <bbc-micro@...>
Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2001 1:38 PM
Subject: RE: [BBC-Micro] 3.5" floppies and IDE hard-drives


> >===== Original Message From "Gray, David" <David.Gray@...> ====
> >put tape over the hole in a 1.44meg disk to turn it into a 720 kb disk
and
> >away you go
>
> Note that HD disks are made out of a different material from DD disks. You
> may find that some drives cannot write to HD disks, and others cannot read
> them, whilst others work fine. I always had trouble using HD disks on the
> Atari ST. (The Atari ST had a DD drive.)
>
> --
> --Tom
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> | T.W.Seddon@... | My other life is 3rd person perspective |
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