Re: USB pen

In message <029120f04e.pittdj+@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
David Pitt <news@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

In message <8ceff2ef4e.harriet@xxxxxxxxxx>
Harriet Bazley <bazley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 7 Jun 2007 as I do recall,
David Pitt wrote:

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It is just pot luck whether a pen will work with RISC OS and not at all
clear how to format it so that it does. It WindowsXP's FAT means FAT16
then that would be the one to try.

I would treat what I say with some caution. It is possible to get into
situations where things seem to work but have not in reality. The A9home
was good at that, write to the pen, it is there in the filer but very
absent reading the pen elsewhere.

I have bemoaned the Castle Risc Pc podule USB and software not being
updated. So, just bought two different type of 1Gb pens for school -
both work in the podule and both work on the Iyonix. As they are
formatted FAT 32 they are dog slow (unusable) on the RPC. Formatting
to FAT 16 would be fine. Bit of a lottery really. I do have a 512MB
Peak USB 2.0 pen that works very reliably between a range of PCs and
RISC OS machines. Lucky me!

Best wishes

--
Dave Wisnia, Leeds, UK


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