Date   : Wed, 01 Oct 2003 22:04:50 +0100 
From   : Andrew Hancock <Andrew.Hancock@...>
Subject: Re: BBC Micro lazy delayed boot!

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Pete Turnbull [mailto:pete@...]
> Sent: 01 October 2003 21:20
> To: Andrew Hancock
> Subject: Re: [BBC-Micro] BBC Micro lazy delayed boot!
> 


<snip>

> Hmm.  There aren't any wire links on the lower right corner of the
> keyboard, are there (could it be configured to boot a floppy)?  Does it
> do anything different when you hold down SHIFT while it's starting up?
>  DFS 0.90 and DFS 1.20 have slightly different behaviour when accessing
> a drive with no floppy in it.  I don't think that's the problem, but
> it's easy to check.
> 
> --
> Pete                                              Peter Turnbull
>                                           Network Manager
>   
                                       University of York
SHIFT while power-on

DNFS 1.2

Shorter beep and displays and hangs at the following display, doesn't get to
Basic. Remember no floppy disc drive is attached.

BBC Computer 32K
Acorn DFS
Disk fault FF at 00/FF

DFS 0.9

Shorter beep and displays and hangs at the following display, doesn't get to
Basic. Remember no floppy disc drive is attached.

BBC Computer 32K
Acorn DFS
Disk fault FF at 00/FF


The same is observed with both DFS 0.9 and DNFS 1.2 installed.

Regards 


Andrew