On 16 Oct 2006, at 22:26, Rich Mellor wrote: > Has anyone recent experience of using SMSQ/e on a Super Gold Card and > Aurora with DD disks. > > I reformatted and reinstalled a customer's system over the weekend and > although his Miracle ED disk drives worked fine under a JS ROM, when > SMSQ/e v3.09 was installed (the last version I had) although you could > read from DD disks, when you tried formatting them you got format > failed > (and a lot of noise as though the heads were not being controlled > properly). > > If you tried writing to the disks, the disk activity light came on, > but > nothing was written and smsq/e hung (the original file if you were > overwriting one was still there intact). > > I wonder if this goes back to an earlier bug which I reported a few > years > ago - namely in earlier SMSQ/e versions, you could boot up the > system and > FORMAT a DD disk without problems. However, use FLP_DENSITY D and try > FORMAT and it failed. >
I always use FORMAT 'FLP3_O234*D' or similar. This works with SMSQ/E v3.12 and Super Gold Card (but not Aurora). George _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
