Date : Mon, 02 Aug 2004 11:27:36 +0100 (BST)
From : Chris Johns <chris.johns@...>
Subject: Re: Winchester user manual scan anywhere?
On Mon, 2 Aug 2004, Jules Richardson wrote:
> Failing a copy of the user manual anywhere, how do I access the drive?
> Does it just appear as a large floppy drive surfaces (or collection of)
> and so say *.n will bring up a directory listing?
Selecting ADFS and doing *. should give you the directory listing. On the
beeb, ADFS puts the hard discs first, if present, so :0 will be the hard
disc and :4 will then become the floppy disc. With no hard discs, :0 is
the floppy.
> I'll burn a copy of ADFS to ROM later (I seem to have anything but!) and
> give it a try...
It should just work, provided the hard disc is okay. If it hangs on
booting, it could be its trying to read something from the disc and
failing. Its been a while since I used the HD on my Master 512.
Cheers
Chris