[Virtualacorn-list] VRPC & USB HDD

[charles]

On 06 Jan, Mik Towse <mik.towse at xemik.com> wrote:
> This may seem like an odd request, but I'm interested in people's opinons.

> I run VRPC on a Riscube2 on an external IDE HDD. I recently bought my
> wife a netbook & intended to copy my ROS HD4 & 5 to its HD over the
> network when we travel abroad. To this end I have identical versions of
> VRPC on each computer.

> However, I have bought a 320Gb USB HDD. Smaller than a Bills & Moon
> paperback (& much more interesting!)

> So, now I'm thinking of copying the ROS HDs to the new HDD & use this on
> the VRPC. The,n when we travel abroad, I would simply unplug the USB HDD
> & plug into Netbook.

> So, two things spring to mind...

> Firstly, are there likely to be any issues using VPRC on a USB HDD?
> Secondly, are there likely to be any issues using the ROS HDs on
> different copies of VRPC (albeit the same version) bearing in mind the
> drives can only be used on one m/c at any one time.

I suspect, but Aaron can confirm, that the software protection, which
depends on the computers MAC address will not let you do this.

-- 
>From KT24 

Using a RISC OS computer running v5.11