Date   : Tue, 17 Apr 2007 11:44:52 +0100
From   : profpep@... (Mike)
Subject: BBC Floppies

Don't use HD disc in a normal BBC drive. they may seem to format aand write
OK, but will mysteriously lose data over time. I got caught by this one way
back when. The heads can't generate a big enough field to write thenm
properly, as I recall. I don't think there is any way to run up the HD mode
of an IBM 5.25" drive from a BBC, because the timings and data recovery are
different.

Do you need and 80 track DD drive or two? then you can email me off list,
because I have quite a few left from the schools repair days.

||\/||ike

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Thomas Drage" <drage@...>
To: <bbc-micro@...>
Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2007 11:17 AM
Subject: Re: [BBC-Micro] BBC Floppies


> Hi,
>
> I was able to format a disk using that script! Thanks!
>
> However, the strange thing is, that while I am able to read and write HD
> disks on the BBC, if I write an image to a HD disk on the computer
> (using omniflop), the BBC will not read it. If I write a double density
> disk using omniflop, it reads fine. This wouldn't be an issue, if I
> didn't only have two DD disks. Is there any way to say copy the DD disks
> to HD disks using the BBC?
>
>
> Thanks,
>
>
> Tom
>
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