> The only thing is: does the BBC disc have 9 or 10 sectors per track? > (Assuming we're talking 3.5" here) copying sector-by-sector is fine, > but the destination disc will need to be pre-formatted. The SAM > can format at 10 sectors per track, and I think there is a program > that will format at 9 sectors per track. It may be best to format > the destination disc on your BBC / a PC if it is 9 sectors.
IIRC, it has 9 sectors per track. But I wouldn't worry about that; as long as you don't use the last sector, everything will be fine. > I've got a PC reader (can't remember what it's called ... PC DISC? > It came from Nev's Software, I think) that says you can sometimes > write to a 10 sector per track disc, ignoring the last sector on the > track, and some PCs can cope. Most, if not all, should be able to cope :) Actually, the ideal program would write to a SAM disk from a PC, and would know how to avoid the last sector. You'd end up with less data space, and a maximum of 17 files per disk, but it should work quite happily. Simon
