Date   : Wed, 18 Jan 2006 09:07:38 -0000
From   : Littlefield Aaron <CALITTLEFIEL@...>
Subject: Re: Please put my mind to rest!

Unfortunately I sold the BBC and drive yesterday to a guy at work, however I
did say to him that I'll supply him with another drive if there are any
issues with it. The drive itself was a switchable 40/80 track but I couldn't
get the disks to load no matter what setting it was at. It's probably a duff
drive - my main concern was the DFS installation (which went ok), I just
didn't want to pass on to him a Beeb with problems.

But judging by what you've just said I think its fine - if it can load
Spellbinder then its working!

Aaron



-----Original Message-----
From: Majordomo List Manager [mailto:majordomo@...] On Behalf Of
Chris Johns
Sent: 17 January 2006 20:37
To: bbc-micro@...
Subject: Re: [BBC-Micro] Please put my mind to rest!

> 
> I bet you have an 80-track drive and some 40-track disks, or
> vice-versa.  Either combination will give you exactly that effect --
> able to read track zero but no other.

And as to why Spellbinder worked, if it was a commercial disk, they were
usually 40/80 track. In fact they were 40 track, with some code in track
0 to double-step 80T drives (since track 0 of a 40T could be read in an
80T drive).

Cheers

Chris
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Chris Johns <chris@...             >


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