On Fri, 7 Feb 1997, Olly Betts wrote:

> Hopefully this is of general interest -- I doubt I'm the only one wanting to
> buy a new drive for RiscBSD.  Ideally I want something for the internal IDE
> interface of an earlish model Risc PC 600, to work alongside the Acorn supplied
> 420M drive.  Now for example, looking at local suppliers in Cambridge, World
> of Computers do a Quantum 3.2GB IDE (thought that was bigger than IDE could do?)
> for 196 quid + VAT, but if I look at the currently available information I find
> no assurance that this will work:

I have a Quantum Fireball TM 3.2GB IDE Disk that works fine with RiscBSD and 
RiscOS. 
It has a 490MB ADFS partition with RiscBSD partitions taking up the 
remaining space. I find the drive very quick in use taking less CPU time 
to complete a request than the Conner 850MB driver I also use for RiscBSD.
These drives worked fine with ARM610, RiscOS3.5, without the new filecore 
and continue to work well in RiscOS 3.7 with a StrongARM.

> So it seems to me it would be useful to have a RiscBSD specific list of
> drive/machine/interface/other drive combinations which are known to work.
> I'm happy to coordinate such a list, so if you've got a combination which
> works, or doesn't work, mail me with:
> 
This is a idea. I'll mail you more specific details of my machine 
setup when I get home.

Mike