Date   : Mon, 04 May 2009 14:38:31 +0100
From   : zeem.uk@... (Alex Taylor)
Subject: faulty floppy drives

2009/5/4 Philip Pemberton <philpem@...>:

> If that's a 3.5" drive, then IIRC there's some sort of issue with modern
> drives and the 8271 controller. So basically, it's not going to work without
> some modification to either the drive or the machine. Unfortunately I can't
> remember what the issue is (probably on account of the only BBC machine I have
> being a Master 128, which has a 1770 controller).

ISTR it's something to do with the head stepping rate. One of my Beebs
at a Byte Back had a new DFS ROM installed (for free) because it was
being run with someone else's 3.5" floppy.

-- 
Alex Taylor