On Mon 15 Mar 2010 21:41:43 +0000, David J. Ruck wrote: > Roger Darlington wrote: > > On 8 Feb 2010, David J. Ruck wrote: > >> The real issue is there is no current RISC OS hardware than can support > >> more than 256GB. > > > > Perhaps using the USB port and FAT32FS is the hardware solution. Then > > perhaps we just need the easy fix doing to the 256GB filecore limit. > > > > Would this be a way forward? At least as a temporary solution? > > With the speed of USB attached on the Iyonix, it isn't worth bothering > with. You'd be 6ft under before you'd filled it. > > There really isn't any point on working on OS enhancements just for the > sake of it. To be worth bothering with you need:- > > 1) Support in hardware for >256GB at useful speeds > 2) The ability of applications to do anything useful > with very large amounts of data. Having a lot of photo's (RAW-pictures each 10 MB) I nearly reach 100 GB. So within a few years 256 GB is to little. > ---druck regards charles deckers -- --- To alter your preferences or leave the group, visit //www.freelists.org/list/iyonix-support Other info via //www.freelists.org/webpage/iyonix-support