[iyonix-support] Re : Re: USB hard drive
- From: Gonzalo Meza <gonzalo_meza@xxxxxxxx>
- To: iyonix-support@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 18:35:41 +0000 (GMT)
One (most surely) stupid question: Where do you find SCSIForm?
Thanks!
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De : Chris Evans <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
À : iyonix-support@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Envoyé le : Vendredi, 16 Novembre 2007, 11h14mn 44s
Objet : [iyonix-support] Re: USB hard drive
On Thu 15 Nov, Chris wrote:
>
> I've been offered a Lacie 500Gb USB 2.0 external hard-drive. Can
> anyone tell me if it will work with my Iyonix?
Yes but!
You might be able to connect it directly but it would need to be RISC
OS
formatted with SCSIForm and formatted down to 256GB (I'm not actually
sure
you format to a lower capacity on SCSIForm!) It also gets rather space
inefficient over 80GB
The best solution would be to connect to a NAS unit (Network Attached
Storage) such as an NSLU2
http://www.cjemicros.co.uk/micros/individual/prodpages/LIN-NSLU2.shtml
It could then be accessed over a network using LanMan98 it could also
be
used to store/share files with Windows, Macs, Linux... computers.
caveats
Direct connect drives can take over a minute to 'mount' dependant on
map
size.
Also we have found some USB drives are not compatible, one unit we had
was
o.k. with USB1 but USB2 transfers were about 2% of the speed, I suspect
something like it kept erroring retrying and then fell back to a slower
mode.
Chris Evans
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