Date   : Tue, 04 Aug 1998 17:48:46 +0100 
From   : "Fraser, Colin J" <Colin.Fraser@...>
Subject: Re: Help with FDC

I expect it is due to our controller...
I want to be able to transfer whole disk images from PC to my real beebs
too, but FDC wont even run on my PC.

It would be a useful project, I think, to write a program that transfers
a disk image from the PC via serial cable, and writes it directly,
sector by sector, to a disk in the drive.

Maybe someone already wrote this ...?

Colin f


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gary99129@... [mailto:Gary99129@aol.com]
> Sent: 04 August 1998 17:23
> To: beeb-emulators@...
> Subject: [BeebEmul8] Help with FDC
> 
> 
> I can make images of BBC disks for use on my PC using FDC without any
> problems.  What I want to do is transfer some things to my 
> real BBC.  When I
> use FDC it seems to write to the disk Ok, but when I try to 
> read it on my BBC
> it pauses for a few seconds and then reports a drive fault.  
> The disk can be
> read back into the PC without problems but not on a real BBC.
> 
> I once managed to read the catalouge of the a disk I had 
> written but nothing
> on the disk would run.
> 
> Is this due to my disk controller or is it something else?
> 
> Any help apreciated.
> 
> Gary
>