Hello David,

> Any particular David you are aiming at?

especially you.

>> Today I suddenly got a strange problem with an USB stick in my
>> Acorn RiscPC,
>> it let the machine hang completely when inserted in an UniPod USB port.
>> This stick was less than half full and used very much between RiscPC,
>> Raspberry Pi 3B with Raspbian Stretch 2018 and with another old Pi 1B
>> running RISC OS 5.24 where my !ROSBink runs for FidoNet now.
>> I must have once fortgotten to dismnount before removing,

>> So no errors reported anymore.
>> But still the Stick hangs my RiscPC with RISC OS 4.04 and UniPod.
>> What can I do to get it working again at my Acorn RiscPC with UniPod?

> Two things, it could either be the card has reached end of life and is
> now unreliable,

That's not the case, as it works OK as normal at all my other machines,
i.e. Raspberry Pi 1B2 at RISC OS 5.24 and at my Pi 3B at Raspbian Stretch
Linux, and also at my Asus L5800C Win2K laptop, both on Windows and Virtual
Acorn RiscPC.

> or more likely the corruption and repair has left it a state the
> RISC OS's FAT32FS doesn't like, even if it appears OK else where.

I can understand that, but at the RISC PC I am only running its normal
built in DOSFS or mostly Win95FS because of long filenames.

Yesterday I discovered the same problem with another good working
2 GB USB stick at the RISC PC's UniPod USB port.
I am only using FAT32FS at the Pi 1B2, not at the RiscPC.
That other stick also works ok at all my other machines.

So I am going think there is something wrong at that SimTec UniPod USB.
Have you or ohers more idea's I could try?

>> I have the Fat32Formatter for RISC OS, so I could move the data to another
>> free place, format the stick with Fat32Formatter and copy the data back.
>> I.e. only at the RISC OS Pi ofcourse, as the RPC hangs when inserting the
>> stick ;-(.
>> But will that be sufficient to get it working again at the RPC?

> I recommend reformatting with FAT32Formatter. First RMKill FAT32FS and
> DOSFS so you can insert without out RISC OS trying to mount it and hang.

Thanks.

> If that still doesn't work, get a new stick, they are cheap enough to
> make it not worth wasting much time on.

The problem with the UniPod USB stack from Symtec is that it only accepts
max 2 GB versions of a small amount of makes.
I have to search with a lamp to find new ones that work ok at the RiscPC.
The Pi's accept all kind of USB makes and sizes.

So now I transport the files from RPC to Pi 1B2, and copy it form RamDisc
to the USB stick.
After that I move the stick tot de Pi 3B with Linux,
and also the mouse/kb-dongel for wireless mouse and kb.
So I would like a more permanent solution without that moving circus ;-(.
All machines have EtherNet and InterNet.
Can you tell me how I can share a Linux directory for connection with
!LanMan98FS at the RiscPC?
Thanks for your (and others) advice.

Henri.

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