On 5 Mar 2007 Terry Swanborough <terry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I am currently trying to add a second drive to my Iyonix [Snip] > but each time I get the same > result, the Iyonix boots and reads OK off the original disc and gets > to the Iyonix RISC OS5 startup banner and the hour glass just shows. [Snip] > Both drives were installed in a Win XP machine if this makes any > difference. Yes thats the problem. DOSFS tries to mount them and screws up as they are over the pathetic 2GB it can handle. The solution is to *Unplug DOSFS before installing the drive, format to Filecore with !HFORM, then *RMReinit DOSFS. Cheers ---Dave -- ____________________________________________________________________________ David J. Ruck Phone: +44- (0)7974 108301 Email: druck@xxxxxxxxxxxx ____________________________________________________________________________ --- To alter your preferences or leave the group, visit //www.freelists.org/list/iyonix-support Other info via //www.freelists.org/webpage/iyonix-support