Date   : Tue, 19 Jul 2005 19:40:21 +0100
From   : jgh@... (Jonathan Graham Harston)
Subject: Re: floppy discs

"Colin" <cwhill@...> wrote:
> The discs I am trying are labelled " DD 48 TPI"
 
You can use those ok with BBCs.
 
> or "High Density DS,HD IBM at1.6mb"and do have some stuff
 
You cannot access data on HD disks on a BBC/Master. You cannot
reliably reformat HD disks to DD on any machine.
 
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