Re: Hard disc formatters! HELP!

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From: Felix GTi Andrew
Date: Wed, 07 Oct 1992 21:45

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In article <1992Oct4.153147.16540@infodev.cam.ac.uk> crj10@phx.cam.ac.uk (Clive Jones) writes:
>
>Yes - the problem is a bug in RiscOS 3.0, which is fixed in 3.1 . The
>only drives I have known to work as a master with slave attached on
>the A5000 under RO3.0 are Conner and Samsung. I hear rumours that a
>few more will work in a one-drive configuration.

Well thanks to some acorn mail that I got a year ago I managed to connect
a spare 130Mg Connor as a slave to the 40Mg connor supplied with the machine.
And boy is it lovely and fast - yum yum yum -
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>(Gripe: Why couldn't Acorn put a few more LED slots along the fascia
>of the A5000? It would be nice to have independent drive lights for
>two hard discs, if you have them fitted.)

I agree. Also its VERY hard to stick drives into the boxes, I wanted to
put in a 600Mg drive and it wouldnt fit - grump grump grump.

Thanks
	Felix

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Subject: Re: Hard disc formatters! HELP!
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