Date   : Mon, 13 Nov 2006 20:51:27 -0000
From   : jason.watton@... (Jason Watton)
Subject: DFS on 3.5inch - Is this supposed to work?

This is a repost (see below) - I apologise if this made it to the list: I 
didn't receive it. The two other posts either side of this one worked fine.

J.
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From: "Jason Watton" <jason.watton@...>
To: "BBC Micro Submit To List" <bbc-micro@...>
Sent: Sunday, November 12, 2006 10:44 AM
Subject: Re: [BBC-Micro] DFS on 3.5inch - Is this supposed to work?


> See my previous post on the matter. Lots of personal experience, plus
> communications with people who earn their living out of doing this sort of
> thing.

 I was after *evidence* - something I could use scientifically. Repeating
 opinions, even from lots of other people, doesn't make 'em true: "The world
 is flat", "The world is flat", "The world is flat"... lol ;-)

> It'd be interesting to hear what motherboards / chipsets *do* work, I
> suppose.

 This would take me a lot of time. I have:

 (a) 1,228 cases
 (b) 1,555 e-mails

 to sort through, from which I have:

 (c) 5 cases where FM fails (that is, in *any* way, read **or** write)

 For this reason I keep a list of FM failures rather than successes. If
 anyone can supply known failures I want to know...

 I hope this explains why I queried the opinion "Most PCs do not do FM.".

 The information from Peter has helped, though, as has The BBC lives! (which
 also paints a very bleak picture). If JGH has anything more to add (like
 evidence!), I'm listening...

 Thanks - we are getting somewhere (I think),

 J.