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From: "Christopher Cave" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2001 6:07 PM
Subject: [ql-users] QPC2 and floppy drives
> I have been experiencing some weird happenings with reading floppies in
> QPC2. Difficult to describe but QPAC2 looks completely to have misread
> them. The same floppy is read quite correctly by my QXL in the same
> machine running either SMSQ v2.76 or SMSQ/E v2.98. The parent OS is W98.
>
> I only acquired QPC2 recently, so may have missed earlier correspondence -
> sorry to all if that's the case.
>
> Christopher Cave
>
>
IIRC there's a bug in the floppy read routines in Win 98 that means that
High Density floppies read OK and Double Density ones don't. The QL Toady
disks are DD hence ...
The QXL probably gets around this problem 'cos it isn't running Windoze.
HTH
Peter
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