Date   : Mon, 20 Aug 2007 16:21:35 +0100
From   : adsb@... (Andrew Benham)
Subject: Acorn Winchester formatting...

Jules Richardson wrote:

> OK, I'll bite... anyone know where there's a copy? Unfortunately I don't have 
> the ACW I/O utils disk (I believe it was on there - it's not on the PANOS 
> utils disk at any rate), Google's being no help, and I couldn't see it on the 
> STH or BBC Lives! sites...

I have it at home, I'll send it tonight unless someone beats me to it.

> (Whilst on the subject, if I've got the Winchester connected, is there a way 
> of booting from an ADFS floppy in the floppy drive? The usual key combinations 
> seem to just want to try booting from the hard drive. Merely curious if 
> there's a way...)

If you're using a Master, then it's a CONFIGURE option.
>From memory, it's CONFIGURE FLOPPY/HARD.

On a Model B, I think you're stuck.

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Andrew Benham           adsb@...       
Southgate, London N14, United Kingdom

The gates in my computer are AND OR and NOT, not "Bill".