Dilwyn Jones wrote: > ALT TAB back to QPC2. On my system floppy disk access will have > stopped working. If you DIR FLP1_ with a disk in the drive, it will > take a long time to realise it can no longer read the disk. But if you > DIR FLP1_ with no disk in the drive it realises straight away and > gives the usual error.
Hmm, I just did a few tests using my old (not to say "ancient") Win95+Word2000 installation. I did not experience any problems, neither with QL nor with PC discs. Can somebody with preferably Office97 check this? > This does not happen when I use the same version of QPC2 on a Windows > 2000 system at work, so may be specific to my PC or to Windows 95/98. It certainly is. Floppy disc access is in fact the only part of QPC that needs completely independent code for 9x/ME and NT/2000/XP. The reason being that while NT/2000/XP incorporate a proper floppy driver 9x/ME only uses a wrapper for the BIOS calls. The only "advantage" is that QPC1 and QPC2 for 9x share almost exactly the same floppy code... Having said this I wouldn't rule out that it might be a BIOS problem. Cheers, Marcel
