On Tue, 17 Oct 2006 15:18:45 +0100, George Gwilt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > 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). > Thanks all for the comments - I will give this a try, might have to make do with flp_jiggle 1 as SAVE also had problems with these disks !! -- Rich Mellor RWAP Services URL:http://www.rwapsoftware.co.uk URL:http://www.rwapadventures.com URL:http://www.rwapservices.co.uk URL:http://www.internetbusinessangels.com _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
