Date   : Fri, 31 Aug 2007 01:02:01 +0100
From   : jgh@... (Jonathan Graham Harston)
Subject: Torch Hard Drive System

Jules Richardson wrote:
> Jonathan Graham Harston wrote:
> > I still need to get my Torch Server working again so I can recover
> > all that lovely data locked away on the hard drive :)
> 
> What sort of server and what's up with it? I've got all sorts of Torch 
 
It's the big brown thing in the photograph at
http://mdfs.net/Info/Comp/BBC/pics From memory it has a 20M drive
in partitioned into two 8M and one 4M drives.
 
Years ago I unplugged the hard drive to keep it quiet and
unplugged the Z80 card to use the machine as a cumbersome BBC.
Whenever I've tried plugging the hard drive and Z80 card back in
recently I haven't been able to get it working.
 
I can't remember what value of "working" that it... Either it
wouldn't boot into CPN, or the hard drive didn't start up, or
both, or something else. It's so big and cumbersome it's not easy
to have it occupying desk space that would make it easy to twiddle
with it.
 
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JGH