[iyonix-support] Re: Help with large USB drive

In message <49a300fb4f.steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
          Steve Fryatt <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 7 Nov, John  wrote in message
>   <4ffa688ee9mail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

>> On 06 Nov, David J. Ruck <druck@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> If it is in DOS FAT format, then you can't use it at all
>>
>> I presume then that it is NTFS.

> No, David appeared to have forgotten about the availability of ROFS.  ROFS
> reads big FAT discs that DOSFS can't handle.

>> On 06 Nov, J C Conner <jcc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> If you've got a PC that you can access through a network
>> 
>> and that is what I had to do in the end. Though I dislike the Windoze
>> way of copying files.

You could connect the drive to Windows, share it out, then copy from 
it using LanMan98 on RISC OS.

>> 
>> I was hoping to be able to do the copying just from RISC OS because of
>> the easier file-handling,

> Er, it's almost exactly the same method as RISC OS uses?



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