Date   : Sat, 22 Oct 2005 22:55:15 +0100
From   : "David Hunt" <dm.hunt@...>
Subject: Re: Collected notes on floppy drive butchery?

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> Kris Adcock
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> 
> Evening all,
> 
> I've been reading the discussions on adding various combinations of
> floppy drive to various Beebs with various cables with a good deal of
> interest - this is something I'll want to do soon. Is the BBC-Micro
> Wiki still running? If so, would this make an ideal way of everyone
> collating their knowledge together? The threads have been extremely
> interesting, but I have this worry that I might miss one important
> piece of information that someone gave as a throwaway comment, and I
> won't see it before an incorrectly wired drive explodes and removes my
> eyebrows ...
> 
> It would be fantastic to see some really definitive "howto"
> documentation appear from the wealth of information represented here -
> it's the kind of thing that's invaluable at 3am when I can't sleep and
> I'm beginning to regret pulling my computer collection to bits!
> 
> All the best,
> 
> Kris
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Yes, I have a nice Sony 3.5" floppy drive (MPF 920), a nice length of
ribbon, a nice Master 128, a nice copy of the Welcome disc.

What I end up with is a nasty unformatted disc, a nasty silence or all the
nice things just being plain nasty.

Has anyone managed to get a formatted disc out of this combination yet.

If so please tell us, blow, by blow for those of us who don't have that much
empathy with the equipment, how do you coerce these guys into action ?

Dave ;)