Date   : Sun, 07 Jun 2009 21:44:09 +0100
From   : jumbos.bazzar@... (Mark Haysman)
Subject: [OTish] Largest HD an Acorn A4 can take with

> FileCore on RISC OS 3.1 only has a 29-bit field for the disc address (the 
> top three bits are drive number), limiting it to the first 512mb. Even if 
> the drive is initialised to a larger size ROS can only access 512mb of it 
> and the above suggestion will end up corrupting the drive.

Thanks Tom, that was as I expected. I've formatted it and forced it to 1023 
tracks, so it gives a smidgen under 512MB.

Is it RiscOS 3.6 or 3.7 that can take up to 4GB then, or both?

Mark.