Date : Wed, 20 Feb 2002 23:06:19 +0000
From : John Woodgate <jmw@...>
Subject: Re: BBC Micro repairs
I read in !bbc-micro that Mike Tomlinson <mike@...>
wrote (in <xHXPl+FAlAd8EwGY@...>) about '[BBC-Micro] BBC Micro
repairs', on Wed, 20 Feb 2002:
>This is an unusual error - I presume it not an Acorn DFS? This would
>normally give a 'Disk fault 18 at xx/yy' error.
>
>1. What DFS ROM do you have? (*HELP and *HELP DFS will tell you)
Watford DFS 1.3. The other Beeb has an Acorn 1770 DFS but it doesn't
respond to the keyboard.
>2. Does the drive light illuminate and the motor spin when you try to
>access a disc?
Yes.
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