Date   : Tue, 19 Dec 2006 09:03:16 -0600
From   : julesrichardsonuk@... (Jules Richardson)
Subject: Drive tester software

Chances are I've got some BBC floppy drives going spare if I get my backside 
in gear and move them back to Cambridge (a right motley mixture of Watford / 
Viglen / Cumana ones in various combinations of 40 track, 80 track, and both 
kosher and bodged switchables :-)

Obviously I'd like to verify that they work! Is there any BBC software about 
specifically for this purpose? I suppose what I'd like to do is carry out a 
40/80 track (as appropriate) format / verify, before plonking the disk in a 
'known good' drive and doing a verify there too (to hopefully throw up any 
alignment issues).  At the very least that implies some software that can do a 
disk verify separate to the format step.

cheers

J.