[softwarelist] Re: SparkFS 1.41 (RISC OS) - Zip size max?
From: Martin Wuerthner <public@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: davidpilling@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 20:42:17 +0200
In message <4ee0eb289edfs@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Dave Symes <dfs@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> It seems then, to sumarize...
>
> Due to the crap limits in RO we are again stuffed, when trying to keep up
> with the game that is now on the far distant horizon.
>
> Even with an external USB drive and a Wallwart power supply, there's no
> way to format it to RO.
When attached to an Iyonix or a RiscPC with Castle USB, no problem.
> The whole point of that exercise being to obviate the need to archive RO
> stuff before backing it to a Win PC formatted Hard drive or similar.
There is always the option of using a network attached storage device
and SunFish (if NFS is supported) or LanMan[98] (for the SMB protocol)
for backups. Then you can even share the disc between platforms.
Martin
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