Date   : Mon, 04 Sep 2006 19:02:54 +0100
From   : "Ian Wolstenholme" <BBCMailingList@...>
Subject: 3.5" drives & 8271

I've recently started looking at using 3.5" drives more seriously,
prompted partly by the recent discussions on the list and also by
a nagging fear that one day all my 5.25" drives and discs will be
useless and it will probably happen very suddenly without much
of an opportunity to rescue the data!

I've got a couple of Sony MPF520 1.44MB HD drives going, and
they work a treat on the Master in DFS and ADFS.

The problem is that I have just tried one of them on the Model
B with 8271 DFS and whilst it will read existing discs OK, I
can't get any formatters to work properly.  The BBC B Welcome
Disc formatter goes through the motions but when you catalogue
the disc afterwards, the title is full of "eee"s (like you get if you
abort a format before it writes the catalogue) and the catalogue
is full of "blank" entries.

I've tried it with DFS 1.20, 1.21 and with the keyboard links in
all 4 settings.

Has anybody else had this problem?

Best wishes,



Ian