[Virtualacorn-list] CD drives in VRPC-AdjustSA

[Chris Hughes]

In message <5020b1505abriancarroll at f2s.com>
          Brian Carroll <briancarroll at f2s.com> wrote:

> 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 could also do with an answer to that problem as well.

> 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 ?

Remember if you use HOSTFS (which people here are) you are using space 
on the "Windows" hard drive so it show the capacity of the Windows 
drive. Virtual does not set any drive size (except if creating an ADFS 
drive).

> 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?

Not sure I follow this one.



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Chris Hughes