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    From Stuart@21:1/5 to All on Sat Oct 5 18:00:02 2024
    I have a 1TB HDD which according to my PC is FAT32 but if I connect it to
    my ARMX6, via a USB KVM switch, it sees nothing. When switched to the PC
    it is seen fine. The ARMX6 is RO5.3.

    Why?

    I thought that the latest versions of RO could work with larger drives

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    Stuart Winsor

    Tools With A Mission
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  • From Chris Hughes@21:1/5 to Stuart on Sat Oct 5 19:14:04 2024
    In message <[email protected]>
    Stuart <[email protected]> wrote:

    I have a 1TB HDD which according to my PC is FAT32 but if I connect it to
    my ARMX6, via a USB KVM switch, it sees nothing. When switched to the PC
    it is seen fine. The ARMX6 is RO5.3.

    Why?

    Do you have the FAT32FS module loaded on RISC OS ?



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    Chris Hughes

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  • From Stuart@21:1/5 to Chris Hughes on Sun Oct 6 22:00:03 2024
    In article <812a30ab5b.chris@mytardis>,
    Chris Hughes <[email protected]> wrote:
    In message <[email protected]>
    Stuart <[email protected]> wrote:

    I have a 1TB HDD which according to my PC is FAT32 but if I connect it to my ARMX6, via a USB KVM switch, it sees nothing. When switched to the PC
    it is seen fine. The ARMX6 is RO5.3.

    Why?

    Do you have the FAT32FS module loaded on RISC OS ?

    It seems to have no trouble with memory sticks or the FAT32 partition on a drive I was checking out for friend. It was recovered from an old PC in
    2008, and had two partitions, a 32G FAT32 and the 2nd partition, of the
    120G drive, was NTFS.

    Both partitions were deleted using my PC, and the whole the reformatted to
    RISC OS using the ARMX6

    --
    Stuart Winsor

    Tools With A Mission
    sending tools across the world
    http://www.twam.co.uk/

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  • From Steve Fryatt@21:1/5 to Stuart on Mon Oct 7 17:34:22 2024
    On 6 Oct, Stuart wrote in message
    <[email protected]>:

    In article <812a30ab5b.chris@mytardis>,
    Chris Hughes <[email protected]> wrote:

    Do you have the FAT32FS module loaded on RISC OS ?

    It seems to have no trouble with memory sticks or the FAT32 partition on a drive I was checking out for friend. It was recovered from an old PC in
    2008, and had two partitions, a 32G FAT32 and the 2nd partition, of the
    120G drive, was NTFS.

    DOSFS has a size limit, IIRC -- presumably it stops at one of the extensions
    of the FAT standard. 32G sounds as if it would be within the capabilities of DOSFS, while 1TB sounds as if it might not.

    As Chris says, install Fat32FS if you haven't already.

    --
    Steve Fryatt - Leeds, England

    http://www.stevefryatt.org.uk/

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  • From Theo@21:1/5 to Steve Fryatt on Tue Oct 8 14:12:42 2024
    Steve Fryatt <[email protected]> wrote:
    On 6 Oct, Stuart wrote in message
    <[email protected]>:

    In article <812a30ab5b.chris@mytardis>,
    Chris Hughes <[email protected]> wrote:

    Do you have the FAT32FS module loaded on RISC OS ?

    It seems to have no trouble with memory sticks or the FAT32 partition on a drive I was checking out for friend. It was recovered from an old PC in 2008, and had two partitions, a 32G FAT32 and the 2nd partition, of the 120G drive, was NTFS.

    DOSFS has a size limit, IIRC -- presumably it stops at one of the extensions of the FAT standard. 32G sounds as if it would be within the capabilities of DOSFS, while 1TB sounds as if it might not.

    IIRC DOSFS stops at 2GB because it uses image files, and file sizes are
    limited to 2GB on RISC OS. Not sure if recent work on making every file
    offset be unsigned has bumped that limit to 4GB, but it can't go higher
    without a 64 bit file API.

    FAT32FS uses the ADFS/SCSIFS/etc block interface which isn't subject to the image file limit.

    Theo

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