If there's anyone in West Yorkshire with a working BBC Master and disc drive,

[Philip Pemberton]

listmailgoeshere at gmail.com wrote:
> please could you get in touch? I've a disk I need to read, and I've
> just discovered that my Master no longer feels like working :(

I've got one!
It's a Master 128, with a Viglen dual 5.25" floppy drive and a hard drive 
interface. I can hook up a 3.5" floppy if need be.

> ObCCTalk: symptoms are just the message "Acorn MOS, Acorn ADFS" and
> then a flashing cursor upon switch-on. The drive does click as if it's
> being selected, and the light comes on, but there are never any
> head-movement sounds, and nothing further happens onscreen.

Either your CMOS battery is flat, or it's set to load ADFS and autoboot.

And this website explains how to fix it:
http://lionels.orpheusweb.co.uk/CompNyb/TechStuff/8-Bit/Master128/128BatConfig.html

The gory details are somewhere in the Master Welcome Guide as well, IIRC.

-- 
Phil.
classiccmp at philpem.me.uk
http://www.philpem.me.uk/