On 14/06/2010 16:00, Rich Mellor wrote:
Does anyone else have as much trouble as me trying to format floppy
disk drives....
I have a Windows 7 (64 bit) PC with a USB floppy disk drive.
Unfortunately, although QPC2 and Q-emuLator can normally read a DD
disk, it is a real pain to find one they can format.
QPC2 normally accesses the disk once, then waits about 20 seconds,
then accesses it further and reports format failed.
Q-emuLator looks at the drive, then says - the media is not recognised
- it may not be formatted. However any attempt to format the disk
just fails to do anything
Sometimes it works though...
Infuriating!
Actually, if I unplug the USB and plug it back in, I can normally get
Q-emuLator to recognise the disk and format it, but not QPC2.
However, once formatted in Q-emuLator, even if QPC2 reports format
failed, it will still save to the disk successfully.
I wonder if it struggles with the lack of the read-only signal from the
drive...
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