[Ql-Users] R: QxlwinReader

2017-06-23 Thread via Ql-Users
Hi Wolfgang, thank you for the explanations. Regarding the voluntary work: I am astonished as well as grateful to people like you, Marcel, Giorgio in Italy and others who still find some time for QL related activities for the benefit of very few remaining active users. This is even more true consi

Re: [Ql-Users] R: QxlwinReader

2017-06-21 Thread via Ql-Users
By the way, if someone actually attaches a raw Qubide IDE harddisk to a PC in order to extract an image file with DD: Since 68K CPU's are big endian, while x86 is little endian, it might be required to do some conversion. Not sure about the QL, but on Q40/Q60, access to the IDE data registers i

Re: [Ql-Users] R: QxlwinReader

2017-06-21 Thread via Ql-Users
Hi Davide, > The DD Unix utility might be of course an interesting option but > maybe it could be more useful for SD cards written with the QL-SD > interface rather than a Qubide hard disk (especially if it has > more than one partition) There might still be a misunderstanding, because the DD uti

[Ql-Users] R: QxlwinReader

2017-06-20 Thread via Ql-Users
Hi Wolfgang, Thank you very much for the comprehensive explanation. I understand it is extremely difficult - even forgetting about limitations like writing in Java - to implement a native access for Qubide disks. The DD Unix utility might be of course an interesting option but maybe it could be mo

Re: [Ql-Users] R: QxlwinReader

2017-06-15 Thread Wolf via Ql-Users
Hi Davide, I'm not sure I understand what you want. You want to be able to read a physical Qubide formatted disk, not just an image file? Perhaps the best way would be to copy (via "dd") the disk to an image file and work off that. Regards Wolfgang On 11/06/2017 10:16, via Ql-Users wrote

[Ql-Users] R: QxlwinReader

2017-06-11 Thread via Ql-Users
Hi Wolfgang, Very nice, that was indeed one of my "most wanted" utilities. I am almost over recovering the content of a hard disk from a Sinclair QL-Qubide system to a WIN file via QXL. This took quite some due to the file numbers and sizes with the bottleneck of the network speed which in any cas