[BBC-Micro] unable to save to disc

[Chris Johns]

On Sat, 9 Dec 2006, salahdin mahmud wrote:

> A friend has an american import of the bbc. Seems to work with drive eg
> loads ok, but won't save. He tried formatting, still won't work and reports
> 'verify error' at track 0 on formatting. Drive is definitely ok and so is
> dfs rom.

Could be it's not actually writing anything to the disc at all. Try 
formatting a disc on another machine, then try formatting it on the one 
that's giving you problems.

What happens if you *CAT the disc it's failed to format? I think the 
formatter writes a lower-case 'e' all over the disc, so you end up with a 
disc with a title of 'eeeeeeeeee') then it's writing to the disc.

Cheers

Chris
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