Hi all,
I've recently had some time to play around with my all new Q60.
I'm very happy with it, it is a nifty beast.
This also gave me the opportunity to test the CD driver. Indeed, I (of
course) waznted to get my usual setup also going on the Q60. Sp I
copied my QPC QXL.WIN fimle to a CD (i've written abaout this
before) and, with the help of many of you, actually managed to het
it going.
I had to change one instruction in the ATAPI driver, else it would
completely crash the machine, but, once that was done, it works (if
anyone is intered in the tweak, contact me, I'll be sending an email
to Thierry a bit later to tell him about it, as well).
I then used the QXLTOOL utility to transfer my files (about 40 MB
in a 70MB qxl.win file).
The good point : IT WORKS. I was able to tranfer the files from the
qxl.win CD to the hard disk. As far as I can tell, there was *NO* file
corruption or anything.
Hats off to Thierry and J. Hudson.
The bad point is: it is really s-l-o-w. the 35 MB mentioned above
took about 36 hours (yes!) to transfer. I don't know whether this is
due to the driver or QXLtools, I'll attempt to find out at a later stage.
It was very noticeable that copying files thatlay towaords the end of
the disk took MUCH longer (at the same file size) than some that
lay at the start of the disk. By start of the disk I mean those that
are at the start of the entire file list as gen,erated by the qxltools
'lslr' command.
The good point of the bad point is that I left the machine to itself for
36 hours, and it slaved away without any problems.
Does anybody know whether a special version of prowess
isnecessary for the Q60?
Wolfgang
PS : I recently joked about the by-line we could adopt, e.g. bomb,
terrorists etc, to give "Echelon" something to think about. In view of
recent events, that's no longer really smart. To our american friends
: I grieve with you.
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