Date   : Mon, 15 Aug 2005 22:16:53 +0000
From   : Jules Richardson <julesrichardsonuk@...>
Subject: Re: [Bulk] RE: Acorn Winchester question...

On Mon, 2005-08-15 at 22:51 +0100, Ian Wolstenholme wrote:
> Did Acorn eventually come up with a version of the FS code to automatically
> read the date and time from the RTC instead of having the user (sorry,
> network manager!) enter it every time you accidentally press ESCAPE
> or BREAK?!! Maybe you have discovered a never-released version of the
> Level 3 code!

Hmm, it's quite possible. Which reminds me, I do have a level 3 RTC
module (which plugs into the user port I assume) kicking around
somewhere.

I'll ask the chap I got the hard disk unit from who it was at Acorn who
originally owned it the system anyway...

> And I was always given to understand that L2/L3 Econet only supported a
> maximum of 40 users per server.  Having 80 programmed into the boot
> file seems to be a bit excessive, although this number is accepted on the
> version of L3 I have.

Well I suppose if it was used for something 'core' at Acorn then it may
have had quite a few people accessing it at any one time. 

In theory I should be able to hook the Acorn SCSI controller up to the
SCSI board in my PC and take a raw image of the drive - and from there
pull the SYST password out (I'm assuming it's not encrypted on disk).
I've never tried talking to one of the Acorn SCSI interfaces before from
a modern machine though, but it should work...

cheers

Jules