[iyonix-support] Re: USB query

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          Paul Vigay <lists-nospam@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Is there a way of plugging an external USB hard drive into the Iyonix
> *without* it trying to automatically mount the drive?
> 
> I've got a 160GB drive which is formatted to Windows/FAT format, so I know
> RISC OS won't like it. However, everytime I plug it into the Iyonix, I get
> the hourglass and the machine locks up.
> 
> I want to somehow plug it in without it trying to access the drive, so that
> I can re-format to RISC OS format? Is this possible?

I'm sorry that this won't help...

I haven't had hold of a FAT-formatted USB hard drive to try, only
flash drives, including some over 2 GB.  The only hard drives I've
tried were NTFS.  They didn't stiff the Iyonix because I was able
to read the partition tables.  Clearly 4 GB flash drives don't
stiff it either, otherwise !ROFS wouldn't have worked.

There are lots of quirky USB devices out there, as any trawl
through the linux usb users mailing list will tell you :-(

Dave
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