Having gone through the tedium of transfering all my QDOS floppies to separate directories for use with QLAY, and going through all the problems discussed below, somehow I got there in the end. Like an idiot I didn't take a backup, despite the fact that I have a CDRW on the system, and lost the lot when my DOS partition of my hard disk got corrupted.
Having rebuilt my PC environment immediately -otherwise the rest of the family would have mutineed, and rebuilt Linux in slower time (taking the opportunity to switch from Suse6.2 to Mandrake 8.1), I really couldn't face the pain of re-setting up my QLAY directories. However, this thread reminded me of the task in hand, but I decided that this time to use UQLX. I must say that I really appreciate the native Unix filehandling. What could be easier than insering a floppy and using QRAM to copy from flp1_ to the hard disk? I imagine that it is a lot safer having Linux looking after file structure integrity as well! So now I am up and running again -well almost. In the crash I lost my rom image of TK_2. As I no longer have any working QL hardware that leaves me a bit stuck. In the meantime I am using Mark Swift's PDTK, which gives some of the more useful commands (like LRESPR) but if anyone out there could send me an image TK_2, I would be most grateful! The only thing I don't like about UQLX is that I end up with a small screen with the wrong aspect ratio. According to the documentation it should work with large screens, but so far I have not got that to work. Perhaps it isn't compatible with KDE? can anyone help me? Jeremy ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, May 12, 2002 9:01 AM Subject: Re: [ql-users] Qlay question - floppie > Daniele wrote: > > > Normally the hardware tells > > Win98 that the disks are 1.4MB, and a bug in the OS prevents access to 720KB > > disks, except dor DOS/Windows disks that have in their first sector an ID > > telling the OS that they are 720KB disks. > > This problem seems to happen only in Win98 and I guess also WinME, but not > > in Windows 95, XP, 2000 or NT. > > I've had some problems with DD disk read/write under Win98SE even though the disks were formatted as such on the same machine. As a result I've given up using DD disks on Win98SE - as you say Win95, W2K and XP all appear to be OK. > > I don't know why M$ haven't issued a patch - I guess it's because they don't regard DD disks as being used any more. It's hard to find new ones anywhere (like EHD) - I'm currently using up a stock that were thrown out at work - i had to rescue them from a skip before the rain started!! > > Regards, > Peter > > > > Peter S Tillier [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Opinions expressed are my own and not necessarily > those of my employer. >
