Date   : Mon, 15 Aug 2005 19:53:51 +0000
From   : Jules Richardson <julesrichardsonuk@...>
Subject: Re: Acorn Winchester question...

On Mon, 2005-08-15 at 17:52 +0100, Mark Usher wrote:
> Careful,
> 
> If the disk contained a file server, that may be on a different partition
> that held the econet fs. Otherwise, that might be one hard drive worth data
> salvaging. 
> 
> Mark

Hmmm... 

The following's present on the visible bit of the drive:

!BOOT
ReadMe
CAT
WEdit
FS

.. and a directory called 'FORMAT' which contains Defects and SuperForm.

The readme file mentions version 1.42 of the level 3 fileserver code,
and that it's not been through Acorn's full release and test procedure.

The !BOOT file contains the following:

  *KEY 0*RUN FS||M1||MS80||M
  *FX 138,0,128

... but if I set the master to boot from the hard disk all it does is
make lots of horrible noise from the speaker and dumps me back to the
'>' prompt. 

Maybe 'FS' isn't supposed to work with a Master? Or maybe it's looking
for some particular ROM code which isn't present? 

If it does look like it has a fileserver partition on there I suppose
it'd be nice if there was a way of looking at the contents without
setting up a whole Econet! :)

thoughts welcome...

cheers

Jules