Date   : Mon, 15 Aug 2005 21:57:44 +0100
From   : Rob <robert@...>
Subject: Re: Acorn Winchester question...

At 20:53 15/08/2005, Jules Richardson wrote:


>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?

have you got a 6502 second processor (internal or external) installed and 
active?

The Level3 FS code is somewhat large; trying to run it without a 2P 
overwrites screen, I/O. etc, and causes lots of noise ....  (I know, I did 
it just a few days ago!)

>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! :)

I've not worked that one out yet myself ...

Rob