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UniPod USB stick support

At a guess, it's formatted to FAT32, rather than FAT16.

I did want to release a FAT formatter for the Simtec USB podule, but I couldn't release it because of licensing issues.

How about doing formatter that will format usb sticks/drives into filecore format. I know MassFS/FC supports filecore, but never been able to find away to format a device under MassFS into a filecore format.

Last time I had an external device in filecore format, it was a CF card via a USB reader. However this was first attached to the internal ide and formatted. MassFC would then read it as a filecore format disk.

Posted by Paul Stewart (sa110_mk) in General
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UniPod USB stick support

Have yoy tried formatting it on you linux system as fat16?

Posted by Paul Stewart (sa110_mk) in General
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Awesome website of the minute

And...

"Impression": Vauxhall

Posted by Martin Bazley (swirlythingy) in The Playpen
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Awesome website of the minute

"Germany": Dollis Hill
"Icon Bar": Temple again
"Microdigital": Upney
"FileCore": Bank
"RedHat": Pimlico
"Underground": Balham
"Richard Dawkins": Temple
"Candlestick": Borough
"BashDotOrg": Upney again
"DinoSaw": Temple (versatile word that!)
"Arnold": White City
"Ovation": Shepherds Bush

Posted by Martin Bazley (swirlythingy) in The Playpen
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Awesome website of the minute

The only station which doesn't contain any letters of the word 'Acorn' is Temple.

And yes, I fully intend to carry on posting to this thread until I get bored.

Posted by Martin Bazley (swirlythingy) in The Playpen
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Awesome website of the minute

http://bengreen.org.uk/tube.html

(Requires Javascript.)

You probably know which the only tube station which doesn't contain any letters of the word 'mackerel' is, but did you know which one doesn't contain any letters of the word 'badger'?

And apparently Debden is unique in at least two ways - haven't found either of them yet.

Posted by Martin Bazley (swirlythingy) in The Playpen
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Acorn Computers Ltd (2006) dissolved

Well. It seems that this really is the most shambolic website launch ever - it seems that the site was registered on 7 Dec 2009, and Mr. Hodgson made his first public appearance on 11 Dec 2009. Since then, the domain has been 404 on 14 Dec 2009, 15 Dec 2009, 28 Jan 2010, was taken down "due to personal circumstances" on 4 Feb 2010, and was missing again today.

And still no clear or definitive plan of action for 'reviving' the Acorn brand, or whatever it was that was the point behind all of this. Nice idea, flawed implementation...

Posted by Jason Togneri (filecore) in General
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UniPod USB stick support

Actually, that would mean it wouldn't be visible on RISC OS on the reinsertion.

Hmm...

Posted by Jason Tribbeck (tribbles) in General
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UniPod USB stick support

Did you dismount the drive before unplugging it?

(Note that my experience is that if it has ever been formatted to FAT16, and then subsequently formatting to FAT32 it would have the same kind of symptoms as you'd describe - RISC OS would see the FAT16 bit, and the other platform the FAT32).

Posted by Jason Tribbeck (tribbles) in General
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UniPod USB stick support

Formatting it to FAT32 means it won't open at all but produce an I/O error. I've tried FAT16 and 32 and 64 KiB sector sizes (If I have my terminology correct) and the same invisible files issue.

Posted by Edward Rogers (Monty) in General
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