A while back there was talk of the ability to use a USB floppy with QPC
etc. As I have recently had to purchase a USB Floppy from Amazon (£10
delivered!) I decided to test it out and see what's what.
Linux:
On Linux, the drive plugs in and just works. It cannot read QL Floppies
without a
On 1 Sep 2011, at 13:55, Norman Dunbar wrote:
When I absolutely have to, I run XP in a VirtualBox emulator VM. As expected,
the USB floppy turns up as drive A: and can be read from DOS, Windows
Explorer.
I use XP via VMware on a MAC. The floppies are accessed as drive B ie FLP2.
George
More information,
Windows XP:
Ok, formatting a blank disc fails in Windows Explorer because there are
no options in any of the drop down lists for capacity, volume name etc.
The OK button works (as does Cancel) warns me that formatting will
destroy all data on the disc, then OK just
Norman Dunbar wrote:
In SBasic, the format flp1_TEST command works. (At least, using a 720 KB
disc it does.) However, it formats to 1.44 Mb rather than 720 KB and it's
noisy. There are no HD holes in the floppy - so maybe the drive is lying
to QPC/Windows?
Could you try FORMAT 'FLP1_TEST*D'
