Date   : Mon, 15 Aug 2005 21:55:34 +0100
From   : "Ian Wolstenholme" <BBCMailingList@...>
Subject: Re: Acorn Winchester question...

I think it must be an Acorn Winchester Disc 110 or 130, I don't remember
that there was a 120 version.

It should work on a Master or B, and should be plugged into the 1MHz bus
of course and not the disc drive socket.

I wouldn't format it until you have been able to check whether there is
any exciting Econet data on it.  It could have been used as a Level 3 disc.

If it's a 110 it should be 10MB, a 130 is 30MB so do a *FREE on it and if you
get a total amount of space less than 10MB or 30MB, you will know that there
is some "hidden" data on the disc which you will be able to access by running
L3 on the Master with the Winchester disc attached and then logging onto
the server from another station.

If you haven't got one of the passwords of a user on the hard disc then you
will have to make a blank L3 floppy disc with a system privileged user which
you can then use to log onto (WFSInit on the L3 system disc will do this)
and then you can *FREE or *DISCS over Econet will reveal the name of the
Winchester disc and you can *SDISC to it whilst logged in as the system
privileged user.

Best wishes,


Ian

----- Original Message -----
From: Jules Richardson
To:  bbc-micro@...
Sent: Mon, 15 Aug 2005 12:42:30 +0000
Subject: Re: [BBC-Micro] Acorn Winchester question...

On Mon, 2005-08-15 at 11:31 +0000, Jules Richardson wrote:
> Before I do something stupid, like finding where I put the manual ;-)
> 
> Will an Acorn Winchester 120 unit work with a Master? What ROM do I need
> (ADFS from memory - any specific version?)

Never mind... '*mount 0' was what I needed. I don't remember having to
do that on the BBC B, but maybe I did...

Unfortunately it looks like the disk once contained fileserver code, but
it's been pretty much wiped :(