Date   : Wed, 06 Oct 2004 12:52:32 +0100
From   : "Graham Brown" <grbrown@...>
Subject: Re: XFER cable

> I've never found a PC disk controller that can handle BBC floppies, so
serial transfer's the only way to go it > seems.

I have a 5 1/4" floppy running fine in a PC and have been able to
transfer BBC programs from PC to BBC Disks. I used the onboard
controller that came with my MSI (KT4V I think) Motherboard.

I can let you know more info if you want.

Graham

-----Original Message-----
From: Majordomo List Manager [mailto:majordomo@...] On Behalf
Of Jules Richardson
Sent: 06 October 2004 12:02
To: bbc-micro@...
Subject: RE: [BBC-Micro] XFER cable


On Wed, 2004-10-06 at 09:50 +0200, Carsten Brasholt wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Mine has got Acorn DNFS with the 8271 chip and XFER doesn't work

Hmm, I'm about to try this later today if I get time. Will report back
if I have any luck.

> I'm considering writing my own transfer software, just to get going.

I'd quite like one for taking raw disk images for archival purposes (I'm
less interested in transferring individual files), where no assumptions
are made about the 'server' side; ability to use any old comms program
or even 'cat' to the serial device under Unix would be useful.

I've never found a PC disk controller that can handle BBC floppies, so
serial transfer's the only way to go it seems.

> But It's been a looong time since I did any beeb-programming, so I'll 
> have to start from scratch!

Well you already know more than me :-)

Theoretically, I'm sure something along the lines of reading every block
from a disk on the beeb and spitting it down the serial line - or vice-
versa - can't be that hard, but it's still more than I know how to do.
Errors could be left displayed on the BBC side. 

cheers,

Jules