Tony. Im going Mad..... appols, i mean SGC
Neil >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 05 February 2007 16:48 >>> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Neil Riley wrote: Neil > You've already given this SGC a clean bill of health before > christmas when you had it running for a couple of days. > ( do you remember ? ) I do, but this was a GC (see below). This is the first mention of SGC. I assume this is a *new* subject? > On my QL i get a garbled initial screen with some random > lettering which apparently is the SGC startup text. It looks > like a spectacular crash. This screen is the same for both > my QL's but seeing as one has unreliable microdrives, it's > going back to the supplier along with the SGC for a > replacement which, fingers crossed, will work. > > So, my SGC doesn't work with both my QL's, my GC > works with one and my trump card works with both. > Great. Are these all with the same power supply? > > No bent pins in sight Can you clear this up. You seem to be talking about GC at one moment and SGC the next. The question I was asking is what happens when you use GC (as described below) in the machine with non-working mdvs. Maybe you should start the report again (8-)# Tony > >>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 05 February 2007 15:54 >>> > Neil Riley wrote: > > > >> The only QL I own with working Microdrives for some reason >> refuses to work with my GC but works with my Trump card. >> whereas my other QL with very unreliable microdrives works >> fine with my GC. > >> Because I am in the process of 'backing up' my microdrives to >> 3.5" disk, I am forced to use my trump card ( II i think ) however >> I am having difficulties when attached to my twin ED drives. > >> For example > >> dir flp1_ > >> This causes the ED drives to emit a sound reminisant of the head >> moving ( whirr ), what happens then is this sound is repeated >> except the pitch is slightly deeper or slowed down, it is then >> repeated again at an even deeper pitch and so on until it's >> almost in slow motion and then i switch everything off. > That is Tony Tebby's routines trying to work out the drive > characteristics. >> These ED drives work fine with the GC without the need for >> any FLP_JIGGLE. > >> Can I assume ED drives don't work with a Trump Card. > Trump Card is based on 720k disk drives. It certainly would make no > sense of formatted ED disks. It should be able to format HD disks to > 720k. Not sure about ED disks, but do not waste them on it (8-)# >> This is a tempory problem as I'll soon have my faulty microdrive >> Ql replaced with a working one which, fingers crossed will >> work with my SGC and therefore ED drives. > > What do you see exactly when you try to boot with GC? > There should be no problem if TC works. Maybe you did not plug it in > fully. It is often difficult. I always put the QL vertically, which > makes it easier to align the expansion. Check no pins on the expansion > connector are bent. > > Tony > _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm *********************************************************************************** The contents of this email are confidential to the intended recipient. It may not be disclosed to or used by anyone other than the addressee, nor may it be copied in any way. If received in error, please contact the company on 01793-715380, then delete it from your system. Please note neither the company nor the sender accepts any responsibility for viruses and it is your responsibility to scan attachments (if any) for viruses. No contract may be concluded on behalf of the company by means of email communications. - -- QBBS (QL fido BBS 2:252/67) +44(0)1442-828255 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://firshman.co.uk Voice: +44(0)1442-828254 Fax: +44(0)1442-828255 Skype: tonyfirshman TF Services, 29 Longfield Road, TRING, Herts, HP23 4DG -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFx1/lM3RzOs8+btoRAt5aAJsGhYuzRtJuKZoNMKgCmJ9A6uQ+JACbBz7W yZV7sJCVCCEfBFNBnowMWO4= =PY/C -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ 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
