Date   : Mon, 30 Oct 2006 11:57:48 +0000
From   : jgh@... (Jonathan Graham Harston)
Subject: poorly master

>Message-ID: <36109.82.71.113.222.1161613120.squirrel@...
 
"Richard Gellman" <splodge@...> wrote:
> > IIRC the disc has to be ADFS.  The machine is trying to load the disc
 
No, the disk has to be in whatever format the filing system expects.
 
> This is correct. When the Master series has its CMOS cleared, it causes
> the default filing system to be 0. The ADFS is written such that if nobody
> else claims the current FS ROM #, ADFS will, so ADFS becomes the default
 
No it's not. ADFS is just like any other filing system.
 
If no key is pressed on BREAK, and the configured filing system
ROM does not contain a filing system, then the filing system in
the highest numbered ROM selects itself, just as with the BBC.
 
ADFS just happens to be the filing system in the highest numbered
ROM.
 
> A rough guide to the default config. is in the Master Welcome Guide, if
> not the following will give you a reasonable configuration:
 
See http://mdfs.net/Docs/Comp/BBC/ReConfig
 

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