Date   : Wed, 13 Jul 2005 18:03:11 +0100
From   : Rob <robert@...>
Subject: Re: floppy discs

At 17:10 13/07/2005, Brian Widdas wrote:


>On Wed, 13 Jul 2005, Colin wrote:
>
> > Having searched a number of sites (especially nvg.ntnu.no/bbc/), I keep
> > getting the error message "Disk fault 18 is at 00/00" when I try any
> > commands or it just happily sits there (drive light on and a sound of
> > static) and doesn't seem to get anywhere..
> > The discs I am trying are labelled " DD 48 TPI" or"High Density DS,HD IBM
> > at1.6mb"and do have some stuff already on them.
>
>Most obvious thing I can think of - is it a 40 or 80 track drive (or
>switchable), and are the disks formatted 40 or 80 tracks?

It's also possible that the discs are ADFS and the machine is DFS, or 
vice-versa.  If it were a 40/80 issue, I'd not expect Disc fault 18 at 
track zero, as that's in the same place on both.  (unless and perhaps only 
if they are 80 track discs in a 40 track drive).

*Cat (or *.) will show a lis of what's on the disc, if it can.

Also try *ADFS instead of *DISC, beforehand, in case that's how the discs 
are formatted, and if you have that installed..

Rob.