Date   : Thu, 19 May 2005 23:25:47 +0100
From   : Michael McConnell <soruk@...>
Subject: Re: Writing adfs disc images onto disc

John & Helen Simpson wrote:
> Hello there,
> 
> I recently discovered that my Master's Welcome disk was corrupt and so I
> have been trying to recreate it using an image from TBL. At first I
> tried using OmniFlop to write it to disk on my PC, but presumably due to
> hardware problems this didn't work.
> 
> I then tried to use my Risc OS machine to write the data directly to a
> preformatted ADFS disc. This is quite easy to do using a couple of SWI
> calls in a technique I found on a Risc OS website. The method just sucks
> all the data into a buffer and then writes it out to the disc. It works
> - although the catalogue is OK, the files on the disc are corrupt and
> the directories won't open, they just report "broken directory". 
> 
> Does anyone know what could be wrong? The image works fine on BeebEm so
> I know it is not faulty.

Dod you format the disc on the Risc OS machine as L (640K) or another format 
(D/E/F)?

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