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In article <1992Nov16.212802.8912@black.ox.ac.uk> u91pag@ecs.ox.ac.uk (Paul Gilkerson) writes:
>
>I have a RISC Developments IDE Hard disc, and have been trying to get
>the filer to use showfree instead of the old-fashioned free command
>(RISC Developments havn't updated their software to take advantage of
>RO3 yet).
...
>I would appreciate any replies.


Well, I also have a 20MByte hard-disc from Risc Developments (as regular
readers of comp.sys.acorn will know.  Unfortunately )-: ) and I had a little
chat with some of the people at Risc Developments when I went to the BBC
Acorn User Show recently.

As a result of this chat (incidentally the most informative chat from RD
yet) I am now awaiting the arrival of the new firmware for the IDE drives -
it is currently in Alpha-test and I have been promised a Beta-test version
ASAP or sooner.  The Alpha-test version does look good - not only has the
*showfree problem been fixed, but the drive may now be partitioned with
read/write protect on each partition and so on.  All in all a good package -
if they get all the bugs out of it.

So now you know why I bought lots of discs at the show.... (-:

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