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
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
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
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
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
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
