[Virtualacorn-list] VRPC & USB HDD

[Mik Towse]

In article <50d5755f70charles at charleshope.demon.co.uk> charles  wrote:
> On 06 Jan, Mik Towse <mik.towse at xemik.com> wrote:
[snip]
> > 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.
But AFAIK this only applies to /running/ VRPC. Presumably, once VRPC is up &
running on a PC, the MAC addresses are irrelevant to the normal running of
RISC OS and file transfers, etc.

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