When I use my Usb floppy under mac vmware it becomes B: and can be used as
flp2 under qemulator.
Tony
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On 1 Sep 2011, at 13:55, Norman Dunbar <[email protected]> wrote:
> A while back there was talk of the ability to use a USB floppy with QPC etc.
> As I have recently had to purchase a USB Floppy from Amazon (£10 delivered!)
> I decided to test it out and see what's what.
>
> Linux:
>
> On Linux, the drive plugs in and just works. It cannot read QL Floppies
> without a QL5A/QL5B filesystem (yet).
>
> QPC cannot see the device as flp1_. QPAC2's files menu also seems "no medium"
> when I attempt to look at the files and SBasic retunes a dir of win1_
> (PROG_USE and DATA_USE set to win1) if I attempt to dir flp1_.
>
>
> Windows XP:
>
> When I absolutely have to, I run XP in a VirtualBox emulator VM. As expected,
> the USB floppy turns up as drive A: and can be read from DOS, Windows
> Explorer.
>
> QPC happily sees the device and can read from it. QPAC2's files menu can also
> see it and read it happily.
>
>
> Windows 7:
>
> To be tested.
>
>
> On a similar note, I have downloaded Jonathan Hudson's qltools, qxltools and
> wxqt2 from "The Dead Letter Drop" and attempted to compile them on OpenSuse
> 11.4 running GCC version "gcc (SUSE Linux) 4.5.1 20101208 [gcc-4_5-branch
> revision 167585]".
>
> qltools: needed a few changes to make it work. I can happily read from a
> floppy image or from the device itself (/dev/usb_floppy), I can write to and
> format new floppy images - I have not tried writing to my (precious) floppies
> yet.
>
> Formatting a floppy directly doesn't work, but formatting a floppy image
> does. However, it formats "short" in as much as if I ask it to format me an
> HD floppy image, I get a very short file and not 2880 sectors.
>
> More experimenting to be done, but as far as images go, reading is fine,
> writing is fine, formatting is fine (see above) as is getting directory
> listings and info etc.
>
> Physical devices allow directory listings, reading of files, writing is still
> to be tried and formatting (of a brand new unformatted disc) fails.
>
>
> qxltools: multiple compilation failures. Still working on this one.
>
> wxqt2: Even worse that qxltools. :-(
>
>
> I'm not sure what the score is with Jonathan's source code. I'm thinking that
> maybe it could be put up on SourceForge as a project? At least then there's a
> safe central place for future enhancements?
>
>
> I'll update that as I experiment.
>
>
> Cheers,
> Norm.
>
>
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