On 22 Feb 2010, at 09:42, Rich Mellor wrote: > Tony Firshman wrote: >> 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 >> > I have had some real problems since using a USB disk drive - Q-emuLator > normally fails to format DD disks, but so does QPC2 - QPC2 seems to check the > disk and then take ages to start formatting it as though it times out! > Q-emuLator seems to cope better with a disk which has been previously PC > formatted - whereas trying to reformat a QL disk is nigh impossible.
I have just successfully formatted a new DD disk using QPC2 on Windows XP running on VMware with OS Snow Leopard. It took about a minute. George _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
