On Sunday 05 May 2002 8:00 pm, you wrote:
> QLTOOLS is used to move files into directories (via DOS) that are then > read by QLAY. I have just had a really fun weekend trying to get some files off ageing DD discs and into QLAY for my sister. The method Al mentioned has certainly worked for me in the past but for some reason I have yet to fully understand I had what could best be called "mixed" success this time. I first transferred the three Quill doc files to ram to get them off the scarily old discs and then copied them onto a freshly formatted DD disc. I actually taped up the hole on an HD disc as it was quite new. The PC is a competent 333MHz Celeron thing and QLAY has been on it for nearly three years - currently v0.90c. QLTOOLS would not give me a recognisable directory listing of the disc. Instead it produced several lines of text from one or more of the Quill docs for filenames and outrageously large numbers for length. As for the dates and version numbers..... This had been pretty much the pattern of behaviour with a fair proportion of the QL discs I tried - some were mine and some Helen's. Only some of them gave a recognisably valid directory listing. Helen had been using a Trump card with twin Miracle DD drives. I have been using SGC with twin ED drives. I wonder if the slight difference in the DD definition sector which is written by a Trump Card system and a Gold Card system could be part of the explanation. Does anyone know if QLTOOLS can handle all of original QL5A, Gold Card QL5A and all QL5B discs? I intend to get to the bottom of this in time but at the moment I am trying to get a Linux 2.5.10 kernel (with the pre-emption patch) working on my Mandrake system - the kernel seems fine but Alsa sound isn't playing ( pun not intended). Richard --
