Date   : Sun, 03 Apr 2005 19:45:14 +0100
From   : Sprow <info@...>
Subject: Re: BBC disk drives

In article <424FAB87.3050105@...>,
   Jon Ripley <jon@...> wrote:
> W.Scholten wrote:
> > Jon Ripley wrote:
> >>Any 3.5" drive will do, even the cheap and cheerful HD ones that are are
> >>usually destined for PeeCees will work perfectly.
> > 
> > No. See the archives for a message describing differences in drives.
> > None of the 1.4MB drives I tried ever worked.

[snip]

> There is some more info here:
> http://www.sprow.co.uk/bbc/reference.htm#35indisc
> http://mdfs.net/Docs/Comp/Disk/Densities

For reference my Master has been working fine for about 5 years with a Sony
3.5" drive from CPC (www.cpc.co.uk). Model MPF920E, though I doubt that's
listed in the catalogue, cost about £8. I think I had to change the drive
select link over to make it appear as "Drive 0/2" to the beeb, rather than
"Drive 1/3".

Before that I used a Panasonic drive but that failed when dropped down a
staircase at University,
Sprow.