Date   : Mon, 20 Aug 2007 21:09:57 +0100
From   : bbcmailinglist@... (Ian Wolstenholme)
Subject: Acorn Winchester formatting...

I don't think you can boot from floppy with SHIFT-BREAK on
a BBC B with a Winchester disc running, you would have to
use *MOUNT 4 then *EXEC !BOOT or *RUN !BOOT to do it.

As the B/B+ (and the Master 128 for that matter) doesn't
have the ADFS format command built into the ADFS ROM,
you will need an ADFS floppy formatter unless you already
have some ADFS formatted floppies.  You could save Superform
to a DFS disc to get round this problem.

What you really need is an Econet....

Best wishes,



Ian

----- Original Message -----
From: David Harper [mailto:dl.harper@...]
To: bbc-micro@...
Sent: Mon, 20 Aug 2007 19:03:53 +0100
Subject: Re: [BBC-Micro] Acorn Winchester formatting...

Jules Richardson wrote:

> Can't for the life of me remember how to reference the floppy drive from 
> ADFS
> [1] when a hard disk is present, though :-) (hard disk becomes unit 0, of
> course). Anyone recall? If I knew that bit I could copy superform from the
> hard disk to a floppy, then swap the needs-formatting hard disk in and
> (fingers crossed) format it.

The floppy becomes Drive :4 (and :5 if there is a second one).

David Harper 


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