Date   : Fri, 20 May 2005 11:03:40 +1200 (NZST)
From   : Michael Foot <mjfoot@...>
Subject: Re: Writing adfs disc images onto disc

Quoting John & Helen Simpson <john@...>:

> 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.

Did you get the disc image from the 8BS site and is it in ADL format? If so, 
I've had this problem before. It would be nice if the Welcome discs were not 
stored in an interleaved format as it would make it so much easier to write 
back to floppy disc.

I have a RISC OS program at home to correctly write the image to floppy. I'll 
email it to you tonight. Make sure you format your disc to 640K first too.

Cheers,

Mike.

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