RPCEmu-0.9.4a - RISC OS 5.27

I’m currently using RPCEmu-0.9.4a using RISC OS 5.27, is it possible to add an additional HD other than hostfs, if so how do you go about this.

IDE harddiscs (ADFS) are disabled by RPCEmu under RISC OS 5 because of a data loss bug that has not been fixed yet.

Stefen,

Thank you for your post, hopefully this may get fixed in the future.

I’m currently using RPCEmu-0.9.4a using RISC OS 5.27, is it possible to add an additional HD other than hostfs, if so how do you go about this.

How about creating a mapping to a network drive from the host machine, and then a symbolic link to the mapped drive?

Steve,

How do you best go about creating a mapping to a network drive from the host machine and then creating a symbolic link.

How do you best go about creating a mapping to a network drive from the host machine and then creating a symbolic link

Two questions there.

Assuming Windows as your host OS.
If you have a network drive – many NAS boxes do SMB – then use the normal sequence to map a share on that NAS as Z: (as an example.

Assuming Windows as your host OS, and you’ve got a default install using the whole of C: then:
In Windows you have a utility called mklink. Open a command prompt for this.

C:\WINDOWS\system32>mklink Creates a symbolic link.

MKLINK [[/D] | [/H] | [/J]] Link Target
/D Creates a directory symbolic link. Default is a file symbolic link.
/H Creates a hard link instead of a symbolic link.
/J Creates a Directory Junction.
Link specifies the new symbolic link name.
Target specifies the path (relative or absolute) that the new link refers to.


Run RPCEmu and create a directory in your RPCEmu root called symlinks (this could be anything you choose, but this is nice and obvious)

then at a command prompt

mklink /D c:\RPCEmu\hostfs\symlinks\NASshare z:\

NB. It’s only recently that I realised that RPCEmu could utilise the symbolic links, a quick test after that showed I could access the NAS share using the method above.
Opening directories with a large number of files is a little slooow…