Date   : Wed, 13 Jul 2005 18:14:34 +0100
From   : Mike Tomlinson <mike@...>
Subject: Re: floppy discs

In article <005d01c587c3$c8194940$37274e51@...>, Colin
<cwhill@...> writes

>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
                                                    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

These are high density discs.  They won't work reliably (if at all) in
BBC drives.

>at1.6mb"and do have some stuff already on them.

Are you sure?