Date   : Sun, 09 Sep 2001 11:39:54 +0100
From   : "Colin Fraser" <colinf@...>
Subject: Re: XFER

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael McConnell [mailto:soruk@...]
> Sent: 09 September 2001 10:45
> To: Colin Fraser
> Cc: 'BBC mailing list'
> Subject: RE: [BBC-Micro] XFER
>
> The A3000 has a DD floppy system - so you can talk 720K DOS but not
> 1.44Mb.  If it has RiscOS 3, it'll talk to the DOS discs natively, if
> RiscOS2 you'll need a third party app that can talk the DOS
> filesystem.

That may be trouble for some - I had serious problems getting my PC to
read/write 720k disks until I installed an older floppy.
Some newer floppy drives seem to have the density select fixed for 1.4M
disks.
This makes them unsuitable for use on a BBC too.
Maybe the A3000 can be modified for 1.4M ?
I hacked a 1.4M drive into my Atari ST using a single logic chip, and a text
file I found on the web somewhere.

> Does sound rather painless - assuming you have a 3.5in floppy
> disc drive
> for your BBC.

It'll be even less painless when I get a personal web server running on my
PC. Then I can pull files to the RiscPC over IP.

ArcDFS is written by Michael Foot - find it at
http://www.voyager.co.nz/~mikef/bbc.htm
Thanks for a great little app Michael.
The support for 'virtual' floppies for transferring disk images is great.

Colin f