Date   : Thu, 16 Jul 2009 22:05:01 +0100
From   : jgh@... (Jonathan Graham Harston)
Subject: Small help needed with initialising a L3 hard drive

"Ian Wolstenholme" wrote:
> The DIM space error, as others have said, is because the card geometry
> has too many cylinders for the array required to fit in the Beeb's RAM.
> You can get round this two ways.  The first is to use a second processor
with
> enough RAM (a 6502 cheese wedge might work, an ARM7 co-processor
 
I can confirm I initialised a 512M drive using the compressed
WFSInit running on HiBasic on a 6502 second processor.
 
As you need the CoPro to run the L3 software, the tools implicitly
imply that you should be using the CoPro anyway.
 
> I'm waiting for !65Tube to be made to run on the ARM7 co-pro to see if
> this helps!
 
Still bashing away at it. It starts up and then crashes.
 
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