[BBC-Micro] DFS on 3.5inch - Is this supposed to work?

Jonathan Graham Harston jgh at arcade.demon.co.uk
Tue Nov 7 01:44:33 GMT 2006


>Message-ID: <2e00544e0611060838u3e6c3932j5939b8c87fbcb801 at mail.gmail.com>
 
"adam colley" <hideki.adam at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 06/11/06, Jules Richardson <julesrichardsonuk at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> > A handful of PCs will *read* FM data OK, but finding one that will
actually
> > *write* it too is a real challenge.
> 
> I'm not sure where this myth about almost all PC FDCs having broken
> support for DFS etc. came from but it's just that, a myth.
 
Hmmm. I shall try that next time I'm at work, though I expect that
either the BIOSes may be crippled or the administrators have
crippled them.
 
Ah! Just remembered. The administrators /have/ crippled them. They
don't have floppy drives!  Grrr. Gets me several times a week. I'm
rushing out of the house and I think "I'll just copy these files
to a disk and take them to work. Get to work and remember there's
not floppy drive. End up trekking downstairs to the library to use
a library computer (which do have floppy drives).
 
-- 
J.G.Harston - jgh at arcade.demon.co.uk - mdfs.net/User/JGH
RISC OS Choices System - http://mdfs.net/Software/RISCOS



More information about the bbc-micro mailing list