On Friday 06 September 2002 11:33 am, you wrote: > Quiet in here innit? Did everyone OD on Guinness at/after the QL show and > still suffering the mothers of all hangovers?? ;O) > > Can somebody enlighten me as to what a Qubide hard disk is? Is it a > special hardware unlike a normal IDE disk and only available from one > supplier? Is it a normal disk but supplied with some unique low level > format? > > I tried to partition a harddisk using the partition_exe program from the > qub156.zip. The disk had been partitioned previously but they had all been > deleted using a Linux fdisk. > > The partition_exe program detected the disk device but complained when > trying to create a partition that it was not a Qubide disk. Is some other > preparation procedure needed to turn a normal IDE disk into a Qubide one? > > Ian.
Hi Ian, I read this message in the QL-USERS mailing list, if you are using a Q40 with QDOS Classic, then the code in QDOS Classic is a Qubide v1.56 module, which acts in the same way as a Qubide on a QL. I think that partition 1 has always to exist before you can use the partition program. But maybe wrong here.... Try format Win1_ to a small figure, then execute the partition_exe program and alter the partition definitions. I have had a Q60 & Qdos Classic on rom using the partition program OK. Try seeing which version of Partition program you are using, as there were bugs in earlier versions. Derek
