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elsas@fwi.uva.nl (Peter Alexander van Elsas (I87)) writes:

>I just received RISCOS3.1 two days ago. After installing it I started up my
>computer and everything seemed allright. However when clicking on my IDE filer
>icon I got the strange error: Error from IDEFS Filer : Disk not Understood
>- Has it been formatted? I tried to set one IDE drive in !Configure but that
>resulted in another icon and a bad drive error when clicking on it. It seems
>that the two modules IDEFS and IDEFSFiler are loaded from my interface but
>this also results in having two configure options for IDEDiscs. Can someone
>please explain what is happening? I have a A410/1 with an IDEA harddisk 
>interface from Ian Copestake Software and SF & PS. The harddisk is a 120mb
>drive from western digital. Please mail me any comment or thoughts, or if
>you think others will benefit also post!
>		Thanks,
>			Alexander.
>(No point going on without my harddisk?!&*#$@)

Due to the fact that more people seeme to have this problem or are
affraid to get it when upgrading to RISCOS3.1 I will try to explain
how it was solved.
After fitting my IDEA interface on a A5000 from a friend we found that
we could still read his harddisk thus removing the possibility of a
faulty interface. This meant that the most likely cause was a dodgy
formatted IDE disk. It turned out that Rhodi James in his follow-up
article was right. I won't repeat his technical story here as I am not
a genius as it comes to disk formats etc. (I specialize in Image Processing)
What we did was reinitializing my harddisk at a slightly smaller size.
My drive originally contained 872 cylinders. After some trial and error
we found that my drive would be recognized by RISCOS3.1 if I set the number
of cylinders to a maximum of 869. It wouldn't work for anything larger.
I hope this will help people that experience similar problems. I would like
to thank everyone for responding (Especially Rhodi James of course) and now
I can finally enjoy RISCOS3.1.
	greetings,
		  Alexander

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in real life:	Alexander van Elsas
		Student at the University of Amsterdam
		email:elsas@fwi.uva.nl
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