Daniele Terdina wrote, On 22/02/10 00:20:
Daniele/
I am trying to use a QDOS formatted 1440 sector QL disk under Qemulator.
Hi Tony, to use floppy disks reliably, please upgrade to Q-emuLator 2.5 (uninstall your current version from Control Panel, then install 2.5 from http://www.terdina.net/ql/winql.html, your existing registration code will continue to work), it has very important fixes related to floppy disks (a major bug was introduced after version 2.0, and fixed in 2.5).
If you still have problems or crashes with version 2.5, I'll be happy to investigate.
In general, trying to format disks on the PC (with the emulator) like you did
is the recommended strategy... in my experience it's easier for QL disk drives
to read floppy disks freshly formatted on the PC than it is for the PC drive to
read old QL disks formatted by Miracle/Cumana/etc. cards...
Yes I guessed that.
It may simply be that the Miracle disks I have are 720k, or only
managing to format to 720k.
Will try the new version.
This formatted to something like 2760/2880.
Odd as the USB drive and disk are HD.
This part looks fine to me. A HD floppy contains 1.4MB of data, equivalent to
2880 512-byte sectors.
A DD floppy contains 720KB of data, or 1440 sectors;
Ah silly - of course. It is so long since I used QL floppy disks (8-)#
Thanks for the instant response,
Tony
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