[Virtualacorn-list] CD drives in VRPC-AdjustSA

[Brian Carroll]

I have recently shifted my VRPC installation from a slow lap top
to a faster desktop PC (2.6GHz Pentium 4). There are numerous
differences in the eventual installation I want to achieve,
primarily so I can quickly turn to the VRPC installation if the
aged RiscPC packs up.  Aaron has answered several questions and
has give excellent advice on the best way to transfer but there
are a few further queries on which someone here can perhaps help
me.

I have a CD/RW and a CDVD/RW on the PC, drives D: and E: and I
have enabled 2 CD drives in RISC OS > Config > Discs.  I am also
using CDROMFS, so CDFiler is killed.  I have the expected 2
drive icons on the RISC OS iconbar but only the first is 'live'.
This one works OK, as described in the VRPC manual.  I have
fiddled in the VRPC Model.cfg file to no avail.  Is there a way
of getting access to both drives from VRPC ?

I have 2 drives both of which both show as 76Gb using
Iconbar_menu > Free. I have no recollection of setting this size
which happens to be identical to the total size of the real
drive the HostFS discs are mounted. It is far too great and
illogical if the VRPC installation has set the sizes. Can the
size of a virtual hard disc be set ?  

Both the HostFS discs I brought over from the lap top
installation (via an external USB drive and/or ShareFS) seem to
be stuck at 53Gb used and 23Gb free, but the actual size using
'Count' and 'Properties' respectively in RISC OS and Windows is
3,130,202,930 bytes, ie about 3Gb - which matches the same stuff
on the real RiscPC. Do the figures in the 'Free' utility mean
anything or is it faulty?


Brian.

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Brian Carroll, Ripon, N Yorks, UK  briancarroll at f2s dot com
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