Hello Derek,
This is what I tried last night:
Bearing in mind what you said about needing an already existing partition one, the
disk I tried this time is an IBM 6Gb. The first partition is QWA approx. 256Mb, the
second is Linux SWP approx. 128Mb and the remainder of space is one or two LNX
partitions. This setup is working with SMSQ/E 2.97 from which the working Linux
installation can be started.
I tried converting the first partition to Qubide using the following procedure:
LRESPR win1_SOFTROM_rext
SOFTROM win1_CLASSIC3r25_rom
This starts QDOS Classic which initializes the Qubide 1.56 which fails to find any
Qubide partitions (not unexpectedly at this point).
EXEC flp1_partition_exe
launches
Partition v1.53 (c) PA Borman 1996
Drives currently attached:
Drive Tracks Heads Secs Drive Name
1 8192 208 0 K###K###K###K###K###K###K###
Edit which drive (ESC to quit):
[The geometry reported is clearly incorrect, and on screen the #s in the reported
drive name are actually shaded 'block-cursor' shapes. Geometry and drive name are
garbage. I selected drive 1 which produced the following message: ]
The activity light for the selected drive should be on.
Is this the right drive?
[The activity light is not on; it works when accessing the drive in SMSQ/E and Linux.
There is only one drive attached so I persevered and entered 'y', which produced the
next response: ]
This is not a Qubide drive.
Create a Qubide partition?
[it's already obvious it isn't going to work, but nothing to lose, so enter 'y':]
This is not a Qubide drive.
Press a key
[After this nothing has been done to the disk contents which still works with SMSQ/E
and Linux.]
I'm going to make an effort to get to the workshop on Sunday 22nd and I'm tempted to
bring the Q40 with me.
cheers,
Ian.
-----Original Message-----
From: Derek Stewart [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 08 September 2002 20:22
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [ql-users] Q40 + QDOS Classic + Qubide
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
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