mount 2nd partiton

hello

It’s almost a decade since the last time I used RISC-OS so my memory is quite rusty, Just installed RO5 (5.30) on a RPi4 on a 16GB uSD, so far so good but the system does not auto-mount the second partition I ve created (FileCore formatted), I used the Partition Manager (!PartMgr) , IIRC I need to declare somewhere (on config?) the number of disks, alas the config app has only options for FDD and SCSI HDDs …
currently the partitions are : RISCOSPi (FireCore) , PiBoot (FAT), reserved and the one that I set HardDisk3 (Filecore) , it’s status on Partition Manager is ‘unmounted’ , thanks in advance..

chris

the system does not auto-mount the second partition

RISC OS 5 FileCore doesn’t understand partitions, hence you can only mount one FileCore drive per device (any additional FileCore partitions are inaccessible). If you want a second FileCore drive, it needs to be on a different physical device.

thanks Stuart!

Isn’t there a way to pretend to FileCore that a second partition is a separate device, like another card that’s been plugged in?

Isn’t there a way to pretend to FileCore that a second partition is a separate device

There were one or two solutions for IDE drives on RISC OS 3 (Partis Computing springs to mind) but I don’t know of any that worked with RISC OS 5.

SimTec IDE as well, plus Morley SCSI.

I’m not aware of any of this making it to the 32 bit world.

Just to update my case: I mounted a larger uSD card, using a USB card reader, then from !PartMgr → Initialise Pi Boot Drive (on the ‘new’ uSD), this will display a window with options YMMV, this will create a FileCore partition with the max of the uSD size minus 50MB – for second PiBoot FAT partition. Next step was to copy all the files from the main uSD card to the mounted ‘new’ uSD. Thats it.