Dilwyn The simple solution is Compact flash cards. A 256MB card is only £30 in PC World - not the cheapest place either.
Readers exist on : Qubide, PC and Qx0. The CF people have decided to use FAT16 format for cards upto 1 GB. I expect but dont know that zip drives under this capacity also use FAT16 as this is the Windows way. I also suspect but dont know that all the other formats like SmartMedia and XD etc also use FAT 16 upto 1 GB. The difference will lie in the reseved sectors for PC devices which my programe ignores. Anyone got an IDE multicard reader to test this on or a spare Zip drive, promise to return it? I have written software that allows me to read write and delete from the Qx0 to FAT16 formatted cards with a crap user interface. I expectthat the FAT 16 SBASIC will also work on Qubide & Aurora as Qubide also supports IDE CF card readers. At the moment I am finishing the nice GUI which I decided a while ago in a moment of optimism to write using QPTR from scratch. Dont hold your breath but it will be finished, but once completed it should solve the PC to QL transfer for me and for MBs of data. If people want to go above the 1Gb limit FAT32 is not much different from FAT16 - key difference is obviously the size of pointer to FAT table & sector. Duncan -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 26 November 2004 10:31 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Re: [ql-users] The hardware conflict... > > Of course there is. What is wrong with qtpi? That will work with any old > > terminal program on any platform. > > Have never used qtpi I must admit - now here's another possible article > for Quanta if someone wants to write it.. How to use QTPI and/or transfer > files between the QL and PC. Just as Tony recovers from the Quanta questionnaire there's an ideal next job for him ;-) > I still think that Di-Ren's software was a good idea - it allowed you to > use the hard disk on a PC for storage - now if that could be used to store > files within a QXL.WIN file on the PC Guess you'll say just run QTPI on > both the QL and from within an emulator on the PC (if user has bought a > copy). Sernet is probably just as viable a solution, if you can get it to connect between the machines in question. Sernet and QL-PC Fileserver must work at about the same speed (i.e. limited by serial ports) I'd have thought. Pity Qubide doesn't do QXL.WIN or you might have been able to speed up disk transfer with an IDE Iomega Zip or EZ135 drive or some such device capable of connection to QL and PC. If Duncan Neithercutt or Wolgang Lenerz are listening, could programs like QCDEZE or QXLWIN help put files into a QXL.WIN on a zip disk on a Qubide equipped QL? There was also a version of Discover which I remember Dave Walker proposing at one point for Qubides, don't know how far that got. Dilwyn Jones _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
