[iyonix-support] Re: USB external hard drive under Fat32FS
- From: charles <charles@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: iyonix-support@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2011 13:26:45 +0000 (GMT)
In article <025a299451.c.n.l.f@xxxxxxxxxx>,
Chris F <c.n.l.f@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> In message <5109c73ff5JohnRW@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> John Williams <JohnRW@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On a whim I splashed out 79 euro (about GBP69.36 yesterday) at my local
> > supermarket (U) on a '500Gb' USB hard drive from Dane-Elec.
> > I plugged it in to my Iyonix (5.14) and was disappointed not to
> > immediately see the familiar SCSI icon given by pendrives. After
> > messing about with USBKick and USBInfo I was almost resigned to using
> > it only on non-RISC OS machines.
> > It was then I noticed the additional hard disc icon neatly labelled as
> > Fat32_4 which had presumably been there all along!
> Having resurrected my Iyo I have been housekeeping on and off lately
> and spotted this submission.
> I, too, bought an external usb drive; an HP Simplesave 500gb to use
> with my EeePC when the Iyo was comatose.
> The bad news is that, even though its blue led glows and it emits a
> click once per 2 seconds, I don't get an icon - so I'm not so lucky.
the drive may need to be externally powered since the Iyonix might not
deliver enough power to drive it.
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