[iyonix-support] Re: Floppy drive
- From: John M Ward <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: iyonix-support@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 25 Jul 2009 21:18:46 +0100
In article <3ad28b8050.alan@xxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Dr Alan Leighton <alan.leighton2@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Although my Iyonix Floppy Drive lights up when loading the icon does
> not appear on the bar. I want to use a floppy but can not. Can anyone
> help please?
The first thing to check is in Configuration. Double-click on !Boot,
select the Discs icon from te resultant Configuration window, and ensure
"Floppy discs" is set to 1 rather than 0 (as I suspect it might be). Click
on the "Set" button and that should solve it, though it might need a
re-boot to recognise it.
Now, most (if not all) of these boot-up and related problems I find easy
to avoid by the simple expedient of (a) saving the configuration (which
goes inside !Boot) and then copying that fully working !Boot to a backup
directory on the same drive -- as well as, of course, taking safety copies
elsewhere. Eggs in one basket, and all that...
If then, at any future time, there is a problem with boot-up or something
that fails to initialise, all one has to do is rename !Boot as (for
example) TempBoot and copy (I suggest, rather than move) the backup !Boot
in its place. Then restart the Iyonix and all ought to be well.
If the configuration of things like number of drives or filer/window
options still isn't correct, then a "Load CMOS" from the Configuration
window's menu will restore the saved copy I mentioned above.
All this sounds longer than it really is, and of course it also applies to
non-Iyonix RISC OS computers, but it might help reduce the amount of worry
for subscribers to this list if these actually elementary precautions were
taken. Incidentally, it's one of the advantages of "our" system that it
is easy and safe to copy these essential parts of the system and
restore/replace them easily -- something that doesn't apply to some other
systems one could mention...
--
John Ward in Medway, Kent - using RISC OS since 1987
Now using an Iyonix, an A9home, 2 RiscPCs and Virtual-RPC!
Acorn/RISC OS web page: www.john-ward.org.uk/personal/john/computers
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