RO 3.11 e-format1600, e-format800 & USBJoystick filename length issues.

[whoozzem]

I found a post on stardot and worked out the following which I'll put here for anyone else who may find the thread with the same problem:
*CONFIGURE BOOT
*CONFIGURE FILESYSTEM ADFS
*CONFIGURE DRIVE 4
*DRIVE 4
*OPT 4 2

Both UniBoot from RISC OS Ltd's 3.11 FTP server, and UniBoot2 work out of the box. Though its changed the theme in RiscOS to the 3.70 version

However if I try to merge the newly downloaded ROOL System folder (using its included sysmerge) then both UniBoot versions crash at the splash screen with an in-escapable application error.

On the plus side the imaging list is now full of text and I've made images of many disks though only tested one works so far - Conqueror. This is a disk I bought which was untested and I never could get it to boot via shift break, but ADFFS did

[JonAbbott]

Glad you got it working in the end.

You should report the crash on ROOL so the devs can resolve it.

[whoozzem]

Now that I've got all these disk images, the Acorn no longer wants to read the 720kb floppy I've been using for all the uniboot etc. copies which I was about to use to transfer the images off the computer with.

If I try to format it (and other test disks) on the Acorn it says bad drive, has this disk been formatted or gets to 100% of the format process and then says Format Failed. Disk still works fine (read and write) under Windows 10.

I am having so much luck these days

[JonAbbott]

If you have an image file mounted, make sure you Eject it and also try without ADFFS loaded to make sure it's not affecting the format.

[whoozzem]

Even rebooting the machine etc. didn't manage to get it working.

In the end though I discovered Linux allows for mounting ADFS which meant I could copy and paste everything off the drive from the Acorn in one go through a live environment which was great to discover since I wasn't looking forward to hundreds more 720k floppy transfers.

I updated my non-networked transfer thread to mention Linux since it may be useful to others.