Re: [Ql-Users] QL Today Volume 15 Issue 1

2010-10-05 Thread Urs Koenig (QL)
Marcel Kilgus wrote: Urs Koenig (QL) wrote: I don't raise the question of how can it be that it takes 11 days longer for Austrian/Swiss post to ship from Austria to Switzerland than it took from Austria to Canada. In those 11 days I could walk to where Jochen sent it of easily.

[Ql-Users] Cumana disk interface pinout?

2010-10-05 Thread Petri Pellinen
Hello everyone, I received my shiny 23 year old Cumana disk interface for the QL yesterday and am now trying to wire it up to a 'modern' 3.5 pc floppy drive... So far, the results have been mediocre at best. I have QDOS-formatted a DD floppy on the Q-emuLator but when I hook up the drive to the

Re: [Ql-Users] Cumana disk interface pinout?

2010-10-05 Thread Rich Mellor
On 05/10/2010 09:00, Tony Firshman wrote: Petri Pellinen wrote, on 5/Oct/10 08:52 | Oct5: Hello everyone, I received my shiny 23 year old Cumana disk interface for the QL yesterday and am now trying to wire it up to a 'modern' 3.5 pc floppy drive... So far, the results have been mediocre at

Re: [Ql-Users] Cumana disk interface pinout?

2010-10-05 Thread Tony Firshman
Rich Mellor wrote, on 5/Oct/10 09:19 | Oct5: On 05/10/2010 09:00, Tony Firshman wrote: Petri Pellinen wrote, on 5/Oct/10 08:52 | Oct5: Hello everyone, I received my shiny 23 year old Cumana disk interface for the QL yesterday and am now trying to wire it up to a 'modern' 3.5 pc floppy

Re: [Ql-Users] Cumana disk interface pinout?

2010-10-05 Thread Petri Pellinen
Thanks Tony You are right in assuming modern drives are seen as flp2_. It may have a DS jumper somewhere if you want flp1_.  These now are generally solder jumpers on the pcb, but it may have external links. One of my three drives does have the solder pad to change the setting but I would be

Re: [Ql-Users] Cumana disk interface pinout?

2010-10-05 Thread Tony Firshman
Petri Pellinen wrote, on 5/Oct/10 11:39 | Oct5: Thanks Tony You are right in assuming modern drives are seen as flp2_. It may have a DS jumper somewhere if you want flp1_. These now are generally solder jumpers on the pcb, but it may have external links. One of my three drives does have the

Re: [Ql-Users] QL to VGA, Ethernet

2010-10-05 Thread Petri Pellinen
Hi Peter, thanks for sharing your experiences, very interesting stuff. There also seems to be an ethernet shield or a daughterboard module for the Arduino microcontroller platform which is based around the Wiznet W5100 chip which Miguel mentioned. This combination would be an interesting

Re: [Ql-Users] Cumana disk interface pinout?

2010-10-05 Thread Petri Pellinen
On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 2:09 PM, Tony Firshman t...@firshman.co.uk wrote: I reckon you would be *far* better off if you could find a Gold Card or SuperGoldCard. They were much superior, with faster processor and added ram. Yeah, I know... On the other hand, I'm looking at this as a

Re: [Ql-Users] Cumana disk interface pinout?

2010-10-05 Thread Al Feng
FWIW. I think that you will probably be able to FORMAT the 3.5 disk via the Cumana interface if you _cover_ the indexing hole and thereby ensure that the dumb device isn't confused when it tries to format the HD disk as a 720K disk ... On Tue, 5 Oct 2010 10:52:05 +0300 Petri Pellinen

Re: [Ql-Users] Cumana disk interface pinout?

2010-10-05 Thread Petri Pellinen
Thanks, I actually had some 720k disks from way back so didn't have to use the tape trick. I salvaged yet another floppy drive from one of the old carcasses at the office and this one actually works! It seems that the cumana interface is very finicky about the kind of drive it talks to (which is

Re: [Ql-Users] QL Today Volume 15 Issue 1

2010-10-05 Thread alain . haoui
Mine has arrived today here in France. Regards, Alain HAOUI - Mail Original - De: Jochen Merz jm...@j-m-s.com À: ql-us...@q-v-d.com Envoyé: Lundi 4 Octobre 2010 17h47:05 GMT +01:00 Amsterdam / Berlin / Berne / Rome / Stockholm / Vienne Objet: Re: [Ql-Users] QL Today Volume 15 Issue 1