Date   : Sun, 07 Jun 2009 17:01:34 +0100
From   : bbcmailinglist@... (Ian Wolstenholme)
Subject: [OTish] Largest HD an Acorn A4 can take with RiscOS

I've fitted a larger drive to an A5000.  This was a drive which was formatted
using an A7000 and presumably a later version of RISC-OS.  I can't remember
whether I could format it again and it still recognised the larger size, or
whether I just re-initialised it at the larger size and it worked.

Perhaps if you create some very big files which will take up the first 512MB
and then save a file with some unique data in, and then delete the big
files and compact the drive and see if it will still correctly read back the data
in the unique file?

Best wishes,



Ian

----- Original Message -----
From: Mark Haysman [mailto:jumbos.bazzar@...]
To: bbc-micro@...
Sent: Sun, 7 Jun 2009 16:09:37 +0100
Subject: [BBC-Micro] [OTish] Largest HD an Acorn A4 can take with RiscOS 3.10

Hi folks.

I was under the impression that RiscOS 3.10, or anything up to 3.60 could 
only take 512MB maximum hard drive size, but I've just tried a 1GB drive (SD 
card type) and it seems to have formatted fine and be working happily. It 
verifies okay, and apart from wearing the floppy drive out filling it with 
1GB of crap, I can't think of any other way to test it will actually save 
over the 512MB limit.

Anyone else had any experience fitting a larger drive to an A4?

Thx, Mark. 



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