Date   : Wed, 20 Feb 2002 12:33:57 +0000
From   : John Woodgate <jmw@...>
Subject: Re: BBC Micro repairs

I read in !bbc-micro that Mike Tomlinson <mike@...>
wrote (in <7r6N+lFwpsc8EwMR@...>) about '[BBC-Micro] BBC Micro
repairs', on Tue, 19 Feb 2002:
>In article <KaX3AGB6doc8EwI0@...>, John Woodgate
><jmw@...> writes
>
>>There are no flames and smoke when I power up, but discs cannot be read.
>>Some discs may be corrupted, but not all, I think.
>
>I don't think you said in your earlier posts what error message you get
>when you try to read a disk.  This will help to isolate the problem.

Indeed. I couldn't remember the message and I didn't want to set the
computers up unless there was a prospect of help to solve the problem. 

Now I have set them up, and the message for any disc command is 'Sector
not found at 00/02'. This applies to discs containing commercial
software as well as those I filled myself.
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