Haven't used my RPC for a while, however I'm about to set it up again as a music workstation (4 slice, DMI-50XG-S card).
What's worrying me is this. The hard drives in it (2x Fujitsu 1.2GB, 1x Seagate 2GB SCSI) are ancient and are probably on borrowed time. And small hard drives (hence a reasonable LFAU) are impossible to come by new.
Couple of 1 or 2GB CF cards to replace the ageing IDE drives and all's well. A straight copy of all data from the IDE disk to the CF card (after formatting to Filecore format of course), OPT4,2 on the primary card and one diskless machine.
Can't see any reason why this wouldn't work. Similarly it may be worth putting one of these with a pair of 512MB cards into my old A5000.
In article <PrOdnS16SMa8K3DV4p2d...@eclipse.net.uk>, Glenn Richards
<gl...@squirrelsolutions.co.uk> wrote: > > Haven't used my RPC for a while, however I'm about to set it up again > > as a music workstation (4 slice, DMI-50XG-S card).
Nothing to add - but could you write it up afterwards for others to follow and repost.
John
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> Couple of 1 or 2GB CF cards to replace the ageing IDE drives and all's > well. A straight copy of all data from the IDE disk to the CF card > (after formatting to Filecore format of course), OPT4,2 on the primary > card and one diskless machine.
> Can't see any reason why this wouldn't work. Similarly it may be worth > putting one of these with a pair of 512MB cards into my old A5000.
We can supply the double CF cards at little or no extra cost if required, though I can't think why you'd want the aggravation of multiple drives. Why not just use a single 4GB card? In fact, we could probably supply an adaptor with a 4GB CF card, ready formatted, for just a few pounds more than the people you quote want for the adaptor alone!
> On Thu, 9 Oct 2008 08:35:33 GMT > "David Holden" <Spam...@apdl.co.uk> wrote:
> > On 9-Oct-2008, Rob Kendrick <n...@rjek.com> wrote:
> > > (Alternatively, buy a larger hard drive, and format it to a smaller > > > capacity.)
> > Err, why?
> > RO3.7 supports up to 128GB just like later versions of RISC OS.
> Because of what Glenn said;
> >> And small hard drives (hence a reasonable LFAU) are impossible to > >> come by new.
Admittedly a large LFAU wastes space with RO 3.7 but there's NO way it can waste anything like as much space as formatting a 40GB drive to (say) 4GB. The only reason for formatting to a smaller size is if losing a few GB drops the size just bellow a LFAU 'boundry'.
If he's managed with a few GB then a 40GB drive will be fine, even if his old data is all small files and takes up 3 times the space. He'll still have about 30GB spare.
"David Holden" <Spam...@apdl.co.uk> wrote: > > >> And small hard drives (hence a reasonable LFAU) are impossible to > > >> come by new.
> Admittedly a large LFAU wastes space with RO 3.7 but there's NO way > it can waste anything like as much space as formatting a 40GB drive > to (say) 4GB. The only reason for formatting to a smaller size is if > losing a few GB drops the size just bellow a LFAU 'boundry'.
I don't doubt it, but he may have other reasons for stipulating that. (Performance for the type of files he has, might be one.)
Rob Kendrick wrote: > I don't doubt it, but he may have other reasons for stipulating that. > (Performance for the type of files he has, might be one.)
The main reason is that I want to attempt to preserve the machine as-is, ie it currently has two IDE drives which I want to work in exactly the same way only solid state. The SCSI drive wasn't really used so I can probably lose this.
As mentioned if memory serves the NET-100 card has the RO4 Filecore modules flashed into it allowing large drives to be used in F+ format, in fact if I remember correctly the second IDE disk (drive 5) and SCSI partitions are formatted to F+, drive 4 to F so it would be readable without the NET-100 in place (in case the experiment failed). Would have to power it up and have a look though!
Glenn Richards <gl...@squirrelsolutions.co.uk> wrote: > As mentioned if memory serves the NET-100 card has the RO4 Filecore > modules flashed into it allowing large drives to be used in F+ format, > in fact if I remember correctly the second IDE disk (drive 5) and SCSI > partitions are
