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- From: altman@cryton.demon.co.uk (Hugo Fiennes)
- Path: sparky!uunet!pipex!demon!cryton.demon.co.uk!altman
- Subject: Re: Big partitions on the PC emulator
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- References: <ssudavss.727608412@reading>
- Organization: The Serial Port
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- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 21:46:18 +0000
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- In article <ssudavss.727608412@reading> ssudavss@csug.cs.reading.ac.uk writes:
-
- >Yesterday I tried to set up a biggish partition on the PC Emulator 1.8.
- >I told it to create a 90Mb C drive. This it did. I then created the partition
- >from DRDOS 5 using FDISK and could happily read and write files to the DOS
- >drive from the PC emulator.
- >
- >When I tried to double click on the partition from RISC OS (A5000, 3.1 etc etc)
- >after having quit the emulator software, I got an address exception and the
- >whole machine refused to do anything but it did not lock up (I have a feeling
- >that it killed the filer).
- >
- >Not being put off, I decided to try a 50Mb partition. Same problem!
- >
- >Eventually I got fed up and used a 25Mb partition which I knew worked.
- >
- >Is this a bug (or am I going MaD! *8-) ).
- DOSFS in RO3.1 appears to only support MSDOS3.2 partitions, ie 32Mb or less.
- Bit of a pain, since I've written something that shows a partition file for
- a whole SCSI device, so you'd be able to read (eg) 128Mb m-o carts from
- a PC, but (guess what) only if it has a <=32Mb partition....
-
- Hugo
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