Date   : Wed, 08 Apr 1998 09:32:38 +0100 (BST)
From   : Dave Lambley <dfl@...>
Subject: Re: BBC Hard Disks

On Tue 07 Apr, Crispin Boylan wrote:
> Hi
> 
> As it so hard to find a hard drive and interface which would work with the
> BBC, I was wondering - why not use a PC hard disk instead?  If you had a pc
> as well, you could serial link the two together, and use some of the PC's
> hard drive space as a BBC partition?  I know it would mean partitioning the
> hard disk in a certain way - but could it be done?
> 
> I'm not really too sure, as PC's are usually IDE, I suppose it would need
> modifications to the filing system on the BBC, and possibly some kind of
> program on the PC??
> 
> It's probably a wacky idea, I'm just wondering if it could work.

John Kortink (IIRC) has some software to connect a Beeb to a 32bit Acorn
with a bidirectional printer port, and use its hard disc. You could have
a go at doing a PC server, as he has already done the Beeb client ROM.


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