Acorn Econet Fileserver

[Pete Turnbull]

On Nov 21 2005, 22:51, Jules Richardson wrote:
> Pete Turnbull wrote:

> > There will be some limit, but I'm not sure what it is.  More than
20MB,
> > for sure.  Might be 500MB, maybe less.  I know that stacking
filestores
> > use the same code, and I know that although the largest ones sold
and
> > supported by Acorn were 60MB, they had bigger in-house.
>
> They didn't just stack them (as was intended by design)?

Yes, but there's a limit on the size of a single drive in ADFS.

> > Yes, two 3.5" floppies.  And I just happen to have a set :-)  One
is
> > for use with a Master 128 called "M128-FSUTILS"
>
> Hmm, if you can ever do a raw image dump of that, shout! :-)

I have an ADFS E copy of the contents which I could zip/tar if that's
any help.  Or if you have a spare DD 3.5" disk I can make a copy (I
have some software to do that much).  I think what you're really
looking for is the NetMgr program.

> [Econet test box]
> >> Amazingly I have this test box, I don't have the software.
> >
> > Ditto!  The test box pre-dates the Master series, though.  It was
> > around when Beebs were.
>
> Is that this critter? :
>
> http://www.beebmaster.co.uk/ETB.html

It is.

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Pete						Peter Turnbull
						Network Manager
						University of York