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Well there I was minding my own business playing a quick game of Arc Elite on my A5000, popped back to the desktop to save my position and was greeted by a "Broken directory" error, followed by "Disc not understood, has it been formatted?" when I clicked on the hard disc icon. :s...

Wow, great solution! I've not used my original A310 mouse in years because it was so bad... Never considered it might be suffering from a shrinking ball

The DOS filesystem support in RISC OS 3 was only intended to handle floppies. It handles CD-ROMs and single hard disc partitions too. The big limit with DOSFS under RISCOS 3.1, is that it only supports single partitions and only up to FAT16 with no long filename support. (probably because FAT32 and...

During experimenting with the different drivers tonight, I noticed an incredibly useful *command with the Argo Zip drivers which completely erases password-protected Zip discs: *IZipErase This is useful because you cannot reformat password protected Zip discs unless you know the password... I know t...

My guess: Windows by default treats a Zip drive as a hard drive and installs a partition table. Quite possibly that's why the discs don't work with the Iomega driver, although it's not because RISC OS was only "intended to handle floppies" (since RISC OS was intended to handle hard discs ...

Fixed. If I format the disk with A3010, it works in Windows. Now, I can transfer files easy!!! thanks to all. Glad you sorted it. :) FYI I've just tried the zip drivers attached at the top of the thread and they are identical to the drivers I'm using, so everyone should be able to use them to read/...

Hmmm.... If I format a 100mb ZIP-disk with my WIndows (FAT16) -Iomega ZIP100 USB-, RiscOS 3.10 in my Acorn A3010 dont recognize it. It says "unformatted" I dont understand nothing. how is possible? Maybe my Iomega drivers are different (they came with the drive, not from here)? Do you hav...

Thanks. The delete key is the one key I can't get working on my refurbished A3000 and I am trying to limit the number of times that I detach and re-attach the ribbon cables :roll: I used the r key on my other roms just fine. Why would these roms shut the computer down so suddenly? Is it trying to p...

Or Is there any way to read FAT32 disks in RiscOS 3.10? thanks Did I miss something, surely this is what everyone does? Just 5 minutes ago tonight I finished transferring some files from my Windows 7 laptop (connected to a 250mb usb zip drive) using a PC format 100mb Zip disc, to my A5000 fitted wi...

Yes, those look like some I've seen in the past.

If they successfully boot to supervisor, then the roms have passed the checksum test, so they should be fine. Did you hold Delete when switching on, to reset CMOS RAM?

But be careful because some DOMs have the same issues as CF and SD, with compatibility problems on the RISC OS 3.1 Acorn and Castle IDE interface. Does anybody know what it is that ADFS is doing to cause these compatibility problems? Is there some command it expects to use that newer IDE devices do...

Try the Wizzo IDEFS boot disc method, as I did for my A4000 here: http://stardot.org.uk/forums/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=11247&hilit=Hform#p140562 This *might* well work with the Castle IDE interface on A3010 or A3000 (because of the similarities to the Acorn interface) and if so, it wound allow ...

Make sure it has a 44-pin connector. I use one of these in my A3010 (also Adelaide, but with a Watford Electronics IDE podule), one in my RISC PC (a 40-pin one) and another in an Amiga 1200 and they all work perfectly. But be careful because some DOMs have the same issues as CF and SD, with compati...

Yes, will pop it up tomorrow, but each card will need to have a new one made based on the mfr files and MAC for that card (it's unclear to me how much is hardware and how much is software on these) Can you try swapping roms between two cards, if you have two available? I'd be interested to see if t...

Great stuff!

Can you post up your final ROM? It's bound to be useful for others in future.

danielj wrote:Edit: DOH! No ShareFS!

All working then?

danielj wrote:Meanwhile, I'm really not sure why it's claiming I'm running out of space:

When you add module 10, to the sizes of all the previous modules and data, you reach 150kb, which is larger than your 128kb ROM... That's why it is complaining.

I suppose if you didn't care about RISC OS 2 compatibility at all then you could store the modules compressed in the ROM and have the loader run them through Squash_Decompress. It'd be a bit slow, but I think the OS only loads them once. A lot of ROMs for later podules include some form of decompre...

That version of adfs filer makes sure you get the Share menu. It's more important to have that on there than bootnet and net I think (in the modern day and age!) :D Interesting, because I don't have that on my network card, and yet I definitely have the correct share menu, as I use ShareFS all the ...

Looking at the Net module size, it's 29kb. I'm pretty sure the other modules came to just over 100kb when I counted them yesterday, so that won't fit...but try counting them on your hdd, to check.

Also, consider, do you really need ADFSFiler in there?

Ergh :( I'm struggling here - I'm trying to build it now even without Net and BootNet and it's saying there's not enough space for the modules :? Can't work out what I'm doing wrong... I'm assuming I select type 7 for Device Data, followed by, for example 5 for description, 4 for place etc... In th...

danielj wrote:I'm missing the loader from &1C - it doesn't seem to get saved anywhere

If you run the extractor and just hit return, rather than enter a second chunk directory address, it'll find and extract the loader in the first chunk.

Great to see it working!

Have a go at rebuilding. Just keep notes of everything you extract handy for when you rebuild and all should be well.

If not, post up the module you need and I can try again.

Thanks Steve, I'll give it a whirl tomorrow now as I've turned everything off :D Do you know what the additional files actually are? One has the MAC address in it. The Mac address is in the ASCII file used for the podule description text. I assume this address is read from the description by EtherH...

Here you go

Hope this works!

Any idea what order these need to be initialised? Can you check your !Boot?

...and Internet module is over 140kb itself, so that won't fit

As you said - ShareFS a bit too large too. So both ditched

As promised, here are my ROM image extract and build tools v1.2. To modify the content of a Podule ROM, it is easiest to extract everything from the existing Podule ROM, taking note of the header information and the different file and data types, because you will need to enter these when rebuilding ...

Soo - how do I save modules out of a ROM without popping the lid on my A3020? I need to get ADFSFiler 0.69 out of my Etherlink 100 :( -> I think that's what makes it play nicely with ShareFS, as ShareFS isn't working happily on the A5000 which only has 0.61 (from ROM)... Working on the rest of them...

It does sound like a dying chip, but as well as power, also check continuity from all other pins on the cmos RAM chip - the tracks for data c0 or c1 and the clock circuit often corrode before power tracks and lead to spurious errors (although usually accompanied by POST error of cmos RAM unreadable).

OK. Firstly the 29F010 on the board is protected, so my programmer won't read it :( Secondly (hooray) - I have a 28F020 which seemed to work with the top half filled with FF :) - I wonder if we can get away with filling the entire eeprom? There's probably a link on the card which selects ROM size, ...