Date   : Mon, 27 Mar 2006 20:24:38 +0100
From   : "A.J. Davis" <mail@...>
Subject: Re: DFS Bug?

Ian Wolstenholme wrote:

>Has anybody noticed a tendency for DFS to "crash" at seemingly
>random points on the Master 128?  I noticed this a while ago, particularly
>when formatting when the drive light goes off in the middle of a disc
>format and nothing else happens until you press BREAK.  It also seems
>to happen when cataloguing discs now and again, before any
>catalogue data is displayed.  It's happened now on more than one
>Master with several different drives so I was wondering if it's a bug
>in Acorn 1770 DFS.
>
>Best wishes,
>
>
>Ian
>
>  
>
I noticed it when I set up my Master with 3.5" drive again last year. I 
put it down to the either the disks I was using (particularly as many 
wouldn't take an 80 track format, but would a 40), the drive or the step 
rate - or a combination of all three.