[iyonix-support] Re: USB external hard drive under Fat32FS
- From: CJE Sales <sales@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: iyonix-support@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2011 13:42:28 +0000 (GMT)
On Wed 12 Jan, John M Ward wrote:
>
> 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!
>
> I sthat via one of the utilities (such as that by Dave Higton) allowing
> access to drives with capacities beyond the noram RISC OS limit of 256
> GB?
Just to point out the obvious before anyone else gets confused - Fat32FS is
written by Jeff Doggett and allows accessing FAT formatted storage devices
that can be > 2GB in size. It supports FAT12, FAT16 and FAT32.
If the hard drive is not FAT12/16/32 formatted, ie. it is in NTFS or ext3
format, then you wont be able to read it anyway until you can FAT format it.
Andrew
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