Greetings once again from LurkLand. Can someone help with the following: Does anyone have a pair of FDDs known to work (viz., for SGC and preferably GC as well)? Or maybe I just need a cable that is twisted right or otherwise set up right.
I cannot get my dual 3.5" FDD to work. Haven't been able to for some time. I had a pair from long, long ago and far, far away that somehow stopped working (maybe the latch pooped out on one; don't remember). I decided to try replacing both with new generics and plug the cable from the Black Box back into the FDDs. I remember they never worked right. E.g. I have never been able to format (and previously could). I could take a disk full of files, delete one, and put my new file in, but not start fresh via format. John, Don, and Roy have all worked on my various tries at cabling, generic (or the old) boxes, etc. at various US shows. Roy even took the existing cable, took two pairs of four wires each and reversed them relative to each other. Things worked better in ways that again I don't remember, but never fully satisfactorily. Still couldn't format. So who has run into this before? "Should" I be able to get away with a pair of generic boxes and a cable that is wired "right"? Or is that an iffy setup and "should" I just get the full setup of a pair of boxes (yes, in one housing maybe) and a cable all known already to work? Possibly would have to be in USA given shipping $$. I am looking to get a physical QL within shouting distance of "original" to do a large part of my daily business. I am not ruling out the QPC I have; just want use for my black box. Hardware: SGC (also GC and Trump ~1M), in general original "black box"; 14.4 USR, Falkenberg, Hermes, Minerva, old Acorn RGWBlk monitor, Pxxx nnnn 24-pin printer. Thanks much, Doug LaVerne Oak Ridge, TN 37830 USA -----Original Message----- From: Dilwyn Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Feb 8, 2005 6:18 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: AW: [ql-users] Visit to Switzerland >>The only QLer in the village - for all you Little Britain fans. >>Can't imaging Dilwyn in those trousers though. Or, at least, I don't >>want to. Neither do I! > Now that puts a different face on it ... :-) > > You had better be careful, Tony, about making a potential visit to > the village ... laplink, null modem cable, and all ... :-) I vaguely remember a picture and caption in IQLR magazine along the lines of "Tony Firshman caught dangling his Minerva Mkii in public". Now if that were to become a LapLink I'd start worrying ;-) -- Dilwyn Jones -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 265.8.5 - Release Date: 03/02/2005 _______________________________________________ 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
