Date   : Wed, 13 Jul 2005 13:36:05 +0100
From   : "Jason Watton (Lycos)" <jason.watton@...>
Subject: Re: floppy discs

A disk that merely 'fits' in the drive isn't necessarily compatible with the
Beeb... nor is the 'stuff' on it, unless you know it to be in one of the BBC
formats (e.g. DFS, ADFS)...

As Mike said: DD (Double Density) and HD (High Density) disks weren't really
designed to be used for Single Density formats (such as DFS). It's an oddity
to have BBC DFS format disks of these media types.

If you're unsure of what's on the disks, and you've got a **PC** with a
drive you can put the disk into, then run 'Test disk' from OmniFlop. That'll
tell you (DFS, ADFS...). You need it to be 'DFS' to work with *DISC, for a
start...

Jason.