[ql-users] Aurora - Bootup (KVM)

2007-01-23 Thread Neil Riley
Hi Guys. First the good news, for those of you who have been helping with my Aurora. The KVM switch is now working with my Aurora, After fitting a keyboard PS2 to DIN and PS2 to Serial mouse connector the KVM happily switches between PC and Aurora and the screen quality is perfect. Now for the

Re: [ql-users] Aurora - Bootup (KVM)

2007-01-23 Thread Tony Firshman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Neil Riley wrote: First the good news, for those of you who have been helping with my Aurora. The KVM switch is now working with my Aurora, After fitting a keyboard PS2 to DIN and PS2 to Serial mouse connector the KVM happily switches between

Re: [ql-users] Quicksort

2007-01-23 Thread Norman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: SNIP OK. So the random order - quicksort marginally outperforms heapsort. For the already sorted case, quicksort is rather better than heapsort, but its margin goes down as the count goes up. However, with the data all the same... ooopppsss my quicksort has

Re: [ql-users] Aurora - Bootup (KVM)

2007-01-23 Thread Malcolm Cadman
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Neil Riley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Tony, I didn't receive a superHermes floppy so cannot boot the system up from it. Regarding the HD and QUDIBE, i want to re-attach the (TURBO LED) to QUBIDE so i can see the HD access but I'm not sure where to attach the small

Re: [ql-users] Aurora - Bootup (KVM)

2007-01-23 Thread Tony Firshman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Neil Riley wrote: Tony, I have recently obtained this Aurora so your questions are better aimed at the previous owner who often frequents this list. Sadly, I appear to be a passenger on this ride but of course am keen to learn and get this

Re: [ql-users] Aurora - Bootup (KVM)

2007-01-23 Thread Phil Kett
Neil Riley wrote: Hi Guys. Hi Neil, I've decided to reply to the list this time so if anything I say is complete rubbish hopefully it'll be corrected ;) First the good news, for those of you who have been helping with my Aurora. The KVM switch is now working with my Aurora, After

Re: [ql-users] Aurora - Bootup (KVM)

2007-01-23 Thread Neil Riley
Malcolm I have noticed on the initial startup screen that whilst the FUJITSU Hard Drive and the LITE-ON LTN526S CD rom gets mentioned, there is no mention of the 3.5 DISK DRIVE, Also, the 3.5 drive light doesn't appear to illuminate at any point during the startup process even when i slap a

Re: [ql-users] Aurora - Bootup (KVM)

2007-01-23 Thread Phil Kett
Tony Firshman wrote: This looks like an issue with the HD boot program. Boot up off superHermes floppy and investigate win1_boot. Maybe it is trying to run SMSQ? It is definitely running SMSQ (though I can't remember which version!) - you're right though, booting up from a floppy would be

Re: [ql-users] Aurora - Bootup (KVM)

2007-01-23 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Neil Riley wrote: TF Services RomDisq V2.14 @ 1997 TT QUBIDE/REBEL Driver v2.01 @1994-98 Initialising There was a bug in SMSQ/E that could cause a hang at this point. I have fixed it in 3.03, so if you have any earlier version it might be worth to update. Marcel

Re: [ql-users] Aurora - Bootup (KVM)

2007-01-23 Thread Neil Riley
Marcel, I have the previous version of SMSQ/E at home. Ok, A small but significant update. Removal of the RomDisq appears to have solved things, or at least, moved things forward. I no longer get stuck on the 'Initialise' screen, The machine continues to boot and im left being able to use the

Re: [ql-users] Aurora - Bootup (KVM)

2007-01-23 Thread Tony Firshman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Neil Riley wrote: Marcel, I have the previous version of SMSQ/E at home. Ok, A small but significant update. Removal of the RomDisq appears to have solved things, or at least, moved things forward. I no longer get stuck on the 'Initialise'

Re: [ql-users] Aurora - Bootup (KVM)

2007-01-23 Thread Tony Firshman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Neil Riley wrote: p.s. IPCMOUSE 5 or 6 have no effect sadly, both in the Boot and at the command line ! Who said that? The command you need is IPCMOUSE (which is in fact IPCMOUSE 1), assuming you are connected to the port marked 'mouse' on sH -

Re: [ql-users] Aurora - Bootup (KVM)

2007-01-23 Thread Bob Spelten
Op Tue, 23 Jan 2007 17:37:30 +0100 schreef Neil Riley [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Which is good but when i do dir cdr1_ i get 'Not implemented', which is bad. You need to set the location of the CD drive with the command: CDR_DRIVE 1,1,0 This sets cdr1_ (1,) to the slave of the 1st ide (,1,), and the

Re: [ql-users] Aurora - Bootup (KVM)

2007-01-23 Thread Roy wood
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Neil Riley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes SNIP Sorry for the questions, if only there was a QL systems for Dummies book ! This is exactly what the 'Start Here' series in QL Today was aimed at. Incidentally, while I mention it, after the next three issues we would like to

Re: [ql-users] Aurora - Bootup (KVM)

2007-01-23 Thread Tony Firshman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Roy wood wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Neil Riley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes SNIP Sorry for the questions, if only there was a QL systems for Dummies book ! This is exactly what the 'Start Here' series in QL Today was aimed at.

Re: [ql-users] Aurora - Bootup (KVM)

2007-01-23 Thread Matrassyl
Which is good but when i do dir cdr1_ i get 'Not implemented', which is bad. You need to set the location of the CD drive with the command: CDR_DRIVE 1,1,0 This sets cdr1_ (1,) to the slave of the 1st ide (,1,), and the 1st CD session (,0). Check the HDD for documentation on the Atapi_

Re: [ql-users] Quicksort

2007-01-23 Thread Dilwyn Jones
Very quick response... you have the normal HUGE bug. When you split the array into a left and right chunk, you MUST stack the LARGER chunk, and sort the smaller one. That's why the stack space disappears. And... be very careful about what happens when you can have duplicate values...

Re: [ql-users] Aurora - Bootup (KVM)

2007-01-23 Thread Dilwyn Jones
Once you have the manual, check that the lead is OK - pinouts are there. I need to track down a QUBIDE manual on-line. Once done i shall give it a read. It is not on the definitive http://dilwynjones.topcities.com/qldocs/qldocs.html so I suspect it doesn't exist. Nice to be described as

Re: [ql-users] Aurora - Bootup (KVM)

2007-01-23 Thread Bob Spelten
Op Tue, 23 Jan 2007 18:29:14 +0100 schreef Tony Firshman [EMAIL PROTECTED]: p.s. IPCMOUSE 5 or 6 have no effect sadly, both in the Boot and at the command line ! Who said that? I did. And indeed Tony you should read the manual 8-)) In fact, it is in the SH updates_doc. IPCMOUSE n; where n