Date   : Wed, 14 Oct 2009 13:09:21 +0200
From   : kortink@... (John Kortink)
Subject: New storage system suggestinons?

On Wed, 14 Oct 2009 10:20:14 +0000, "Pete G." <peteveg@...>
wrote:

>Hi All - I'm looking to add a modern replacement filing system
>to my Model B (and I'd also like it to work with the Master too
>if poss) and am not quite sure which/what to go for. What I want
>to be able to do is to still retain one floppy drive so that I
>can copy over some of my existing software onto the new "drive".
>I also want to try and avoid having a system that connects to
>the User Port as I use this for the Eprom Programmer. There
>seems to be either the option of SDram based storage or an
>internal IDE drive. Most important to me would be that the
>new storage was as "well integrated" with the standard Beeb
>filing system as poss, so to make copying stuff to the new
>drive as easy as possible. I'd probably prefer to go solid
>state ram rather than IDE hard disk if I possibly can....
>any recommendations appreciated !!

The most powerful solution is GoMMC. This is an internal
storage system (plugs into a ROM socket inside the machine),
uses MMCs, supports DFS as well as ADFS, supports discs,
harddiscs, even tapes, and offers an extensive toolset to
copy disc images to/from the MMC from a variety of sources
either on a PC or the BBC itself (including regular floppy
drives), in various formats (SSD, DSD, multi- disc, etc.).
Etcetera, etcetera. For more details see :

http://web.inter.nl.net/users/J.Kortink/home/hardware/gommc/what.htm

But it's not cheap. There are various other solutions that
are or appear to be, but offer more specific functionality,
which may or may not suit you now or later.

Unfortunately, the 'community' went a little crazy on creating
new storage systems in the past few years, instead of putting
effort into other, more exciting hardware, but it does give
you some sort of choice, depending on what you want to pay
and how much inconvenience you want to put up with.


John Kortink

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