Info on UM8397 floppy disk IC?

Well the prog I was hoping to get to work is called 'fdc' - see: http://www.8bs.com/othrdnld/utilities/fdc.zip Quoting from the notes in that zip file: "Note that most PC floppy controllers have broken single density modes. They may still be able to read single density disks with a few retries, but they can't write or format them. However, FDCs based on the 37C65 series of chips appear to work OK; this chip is normally in a 40-pin DIP or 44-pin PLCC package and has one 9.6 MHz crystal and one 16 or 32 MHz crystal (as opposed to the more common chips that use a single 24 MHz crystal)." Hence I'm assuming the program actually works and the 3 motherboards I've tried it on all have integrated fdc ICs that don't work. Plenty of people out there seem to have used that program with good results anyway. Whether this 8397 chip is also one of the ones that won't work (and so I'm wasting my time anyway) I don't know. I'm not exactly short on BBC hardware here so I could read and transfer the images there (thanks for your offer anyway!), but it would be far nicer to be able to read them on the desktop PC and be able to stick them straight onto backed-up hard disk storage. The other option is to use one of the SCSI floppy boards that I have. That involves quite a bit of C coding though which is why I've been putting it off lately :-) cheers Jules