Tony Firshman wrote:
>I assume you have made sure the ribbon cable is OK? Try pushing the
>cable in and out to clean the connections (both ends).
>
>Does the drive motor start at all?
When I switched it on again tonight to do a more thorough test, the
drive works in that it gives a dircetory listing of a disk inserted
(using both SMSQE and QDOS JM). However, when the disk stops and the
drive light goes out, there is a hammerdrill noise from the drive. It
sounds rather as though the drive is dying I'm afraid.
I've had problems before with internal connections in the MinisQL and
this was the first thing I thought of.
The room where the computers are stored are not the warmest in the
house; I'll try improving the heating a bit for a few days - its
problems seem to have always happened during the winter.
Bill Waugh suggested that I try putting the CHR$(0) filename in
quotes - I have tried this Bill and it doesn't make any difference in
this case. The error message I constantly get is End Of File.
Time to give up on this one I think until I can get an old level 1 QL
out of the attic (it's an old QDOS disk so presumably worked at some
time!)
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