cjlt
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I've just bought a BBC Micro complete with 5.25" and 3.5" drives.
It has Watford Electronics DFS v1.43. This allows 62 files and has Form40 and Form80 commands in firmware, thank goodness as I don't have a Utilities disk.
But, while Form40 and Form80 work fine on 5.25" disks, they fail every time with every 3.5" disk I've tried. They step through to the very last track, then report error 10 at 4F/00 (or 27/00 in Form40).
Any thoughts, please?
All my disks have previously (mostly several years ago) been formatted on PCs. Could this be causing problems? They are all DD, not HD.
I've tried reading them on a PC with OmniDisk and it says some of them have been overwritten and aren't formatted correctly, but it can't find fault with others.
Thanks for your time
Chris
It has Watford Electronics DFS v1.43. This allows 62 files and has Form40 and Form80 commands in firmware, thank goodness as I don't have a Utilities disk.
But, while Form40 and Form80 work fine on 5.25" disks, they fail every time with every 3.5" disk I've tried. They step through to the very last track, then report error 10 at 4F/00 (or 27/00 in Form40).
Any thoughts, please?
All my disks have previously (mostly several years ago) been formatted on PCs. Could this be causing problems? They are all DD, not HD.
I've tried reading them on a PC with OmniDisk and it says some of them have been overwritten and aren't formatted correctly, but it can't find fault with others.
Thanks for your time
Chris