Date   : Sun, 12 Mar 2006 19:20:39 +0000
From   : "Ian Wolstenholme" <BBCMailingList@...>
Subject: Re: NFS/FDFS: Problems, Documentation, disks, and otherdistracting thoughts.

The MDFS manual is available on-line; or at least it was until 8BS was taken
down.

I arranged for my copy to be sent to the University of Aberystwyth to be
scanned by a chap there
and I have a local copy which is about 18MB in PDF files.

If anybody wants it I can arrange to upload it to BeebMaster for a limited
time for people to
download.

In fact I now have four copies of the MDFS manual but they are all "unique"
due to its loose-leaf
format for updates.

Best wishes,


Ian

----- Original Message -----
From: Phil Blundell
To:  Fragula <fragula@...>
Cc:  BBC Micro List <bbc-micro@...>
Sent: Sun, 12 Mar 2006 16:41:39 +0000
Subject: [BBC-Micro] Re: NFS/FDFS: Problems, Documentation, disks, and otherdistracting
thoughts.

Hi Martyn!

On Sun, 2006-03-12 at 15:23 +0000, Fragula wrote:
> Gives basic info on the connections, boot sequence, meanings of lights
> etc. Might be worth scanning (perhaps changing the names to protect the
> innocent) or rewording into a .txt file dya think?

Yup, sounds good.

> I also have the "SJ Research File Server User Manual", but that is more
> geared to client users than admins. D'ya think there might be any demand
> out there for a scan of this. (with "propery of XXXXX" edited off the
> cover.)

Probably worth doing, yeah.  I don't remember what the FDFS manual is
like, but it seems like it's worth preserving for posterity if nothing
else.  The MDFS one is quite comprehensive, including quite a lot of
detailed programming and protocol information.

> files and does all sorts of glorious self-explanatory things. Oh. and it
> boots, but won't let me log in.

That is a bit odd.  What error do you get?

> So, its possibly the NFS ROM in my Model B. ISTR the FDFS was fussy
> about which version of NFS was used. Do you remember??? Until recently,
> I always ran the NFS in a static RAM, but can't remember which version.
> (BBC Too Reliable!)
> 
> I've got later ones (than the 3.34 thats in the machine at the mo) as
> disk images. Somewhere<tm>)

NFS 3.34 was certainly famed for its brokenness, and I do have a vague
recollection that one of its endearing quirks was that it got some part
of its OSCLI handling wrong.  I always used ENFS 3.60, so it might be
worth trying that version and see if it behaves any better.

p.