Date   : Tue, 17 Jan 2006 19:19:23 +0100
From   : Eelco Huininga <eelco@...>
Subject: Re: Please put my mind to rest!

Looks like your beeb only reads track 0 of the disks correctly. This may 
happen if the drive's head stepping is out of alignment. Your spellbinder 
disk might have a track seperation *just* within the parameters to work correctly,
while the other disks have tracks which are *just* outside the parameters.
I've had a drive once which had this problem.
You might try realigning the head or the stepping motor, but I guess this
would be quite a complicated operation. Obtaining another drive would be
easier I recon. Have you tried hooking up another drive?

Cheers,
Eelco


Littlefield Aaron wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> 
> I wonder if you guys could possibly help me here. I upgraded an issue 7 BBC
> B to Acorn DFS (courtesy of Beebmaster); all went well and an initial turn
> on splashed up the 'Acorn DFS'. I checked the drive by loading Acornsoft
> Spellbinder and it was fine. So far so good.
> 
> Here's where I'm puzzled, of the disks I have left (obtained from various
> sources and different drives) I couldn't get any of them to load up. They
> would quite happily tell me what was on the disks when using a *CAT or
> whatever it is. However if I tried to SHIFT+BREAK all I'd ever seem to get
> was error messages.
> 
> I understand that there are sometimes some issues associated with disks
> formatted on other drives etc, and part of me wonders if the drive (a
> minty-fresh Cumana) is on the blink slightly.
> 
> Could I have installed DFS correctly? Would Spellbinder have loaded
> otherwise? I'm having a bit of a guilt trip as I recently sold the machine
> to a colleague at work, and I'm hoping I've not sold him either a duff disk
> drive or a dud DFS beeb.
> 
> Any ideas? Bit late now though....
> 
> Aaron
> 
> 
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