At 20:10 02/05/2007, you wrote:
Could that be useful to you too ... ?
Very poor, tho' good for killing startop progs, the DEFRAG is
pathetic, it left 200 files in 1800 pieces for XP to clean up. The
graphic was utterly deceptive.
You have to register, when installed, which just means you then
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
didn't it have 1 word, 2 bytes per sector: the file number in one byte ($f8
= sector map, $fd = free, $ff = dead) plus the block number within the file
in the othe byte?
I can't remember :o(
Note tpp, every file fragmented of necessity by the interleave factor
At 16:54 01/05/2007, you wrote:
Try www.gtopala.com Very useful [and free for private use] :-)
Searched in vain for a download.
THis is a better link:
http://www.shareup.com/SIW-download-23742.html
Tony
It was a struggle to find the download, and when done just loads of
info but no
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David Tubbs wrote:
At 16:54 01/05/2007, you wrote:
Try www.gtopala.com Very useful [and free for private use] :-)
Searched in vain for a download.
THis is a better link:
http://www.shareup.com/SIW-download-23742.html
Tony
It was a
At 12:32 02/05/2007, you wrote:
Yes - but a great deal of very good info.
It is alarming, for instance, to see all ones passwords stored unencoded.
More use in cracking open someone else's machine
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LOAD and SAVE load and saves files in order (ie SuperBasic files).
SAVE was the equivalent of OPEN#channel,file:LIST#channel:CLOSE#channel?
SBYTES and LBYTES does the scatter loading.
So the interleave is good for LOAD/SAVE but meaningless for SBYTES/LBYTES.
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED],
David Tubbs [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
Clip
I am always on the lookout for things that will strip out some of the
bloat, have used XPLITE, Remove features and end up with more
files and less space !
Anybody know something that works
I recently got a copy of the
Morning Ade,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I must admit, I was assuming Sinclair had used 1024 byte blocks on his
microdrives - I may need to be corrected on that.
I suspect that 1024 is correct. Although, the freespace/total space numbers (on
a DIR or STAT) was reported in sectors with a sector
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I must try and
write a program to see just how many directories there are.
Assuming Linux (because you mentioned it) how about :
cd \
ls -Rl | grep ^d | wc -l
I got 2,889 on a test system I have here at work - and that's not from the root
of the drive.
Cheers,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I must try and
write a program to see just how many directories there are.
Assuming Linux (because you mentioned it) how about :
cd \
ls -Rl | grep ^d | wc -l
I got 2,889 on a test system I have here at work - and that's not
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb:
Norman,
investigation ist simple:
* ls -lR | grep ^d | wc -l
11.735 seconds of real time to find 2,889 directories
This will put a directory of _all_ files on your harddisk into the pipe,
grep will search through it and throw away most of it.
* find ./ -type d
David Tubbs wrote:
At 15:10 30/04/2007, you wrote:
I must admit, I was assuming Sinclair had used 1024 byte blocks on his
microdrives - I may need to be corrected on that.
512 byte seectors.
one map sector, one byte for each potential sector, I had a few mdvs
of 250 sectors.
didn't
Actually.
I'd like the proper answer to that as well. I guessed that unformatted
capacity represents the total amount of data that can be stored on the disk.
Formatting added extra information (like an [un]allocated sector/cluster
map, root directory, boot info and program, etc) that
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David McCann wrote:
All this has prompted me to look at my own 40GB disk. It is reported to
have a capacity of 35.5GB (just 5.5GB used!), showing that Seagate used
factors of 1000 and Linux of 1024. Looking at unused directories shows
that every
Ade Vickers wrote:
...
I must admit, I was assuming Sinclair had used 1024 byte blocks on his
microdrives - I may need to be corrected on that.
Sinclair used 512 byte blocks/sectors on the mdvs. ^_^
(AFAIK) When a cartridge was formatted, the blocks were written with
decreasing block
Robert Newson wrote:
I must admit, I was assuming Sinclair had used 1024 byte
blocks on his
microdrives - I may need to be corrected on that.
Sinclair used 512 byte blocks/sectors on the mdvs. ^_^
Of course I'd forgotten that. It's been too long since I used a QL in
anger -- even
Ade Vickers wrote:
...
Sinclair used 512 byte blocks/sectors on the mdvs. ^_^
Of course I'd forgotten that. It's been too long since I used a QL in
anger -- even though I have one set up right here in the office :-/
So... My estimate of 3.5million MDVs is, in fact, wrong; it should be
Robert Newson wrote:
Ade Vickers wrote:
...
Sinclair used 512 byte blocks/sectors on the mdvs. ^_^
Of course I'd forgotten that. It's been too long since
I used a QL
in anger -- even though I have one set up right here in the
office :-/
So... My estimate of 3.5million
At 15:10 30/04/2007, you wrote:
I must admit, I was assuming Sinclair had used 1024 byte blocks on his
microdrives - I may need to be corrected on that.
512 byte seectors.
one map sector, one byte for each potential sector, I had a few mdvs
of 250 sectors.
Note tpp, every file fragmented of
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
...
Of course, the capacity decreases when you format the disc as well (how did
they work out the unformatted capacity, because, if it is unformatted then
you cannot store anything on it !)
I'd like the proper answer to that as well. I guessed that unformatted
Norman wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Yes, I am toying with getting a 400GB hard drive ... I
I wonder how many QL microdrives that is the equivalent of ?
Using 400 * 1024 * 1024 * 1024 bytes and dividing by 110 *
1024 bytes we get a grand total of 3,813,003.6363 (recurring)
Yes, I am toying with getting a 400GB hard drive ... I guess we
just =
can't get enough of it ... :-)
I wonder how many QL microdrives that is the equivalent of ?
Using 400 * 1024 * 1024 * 1024 bytes and dividing by 110 * 1024
bytes we get a grand total of 3,813,003.6363 (recurring)
?
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From: Malcolm Cadman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2007 9:32 PM
Subject: Re: [ql-users] new hard disk
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Dilwyn Jones
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
Last week I was pestering you all with questions about formatting
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Dilwyn Jones
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
Yes, I am toying with getting a 400GB hard drive ... I guess we
just =
can't get enough of it ... :-)
I wonder how many QL microdrives that is the equivalent of ?
Using 400 * 1024 * 1024 * 1024 bytes and dividing by 110 *
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Dilwyn Jones
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
Last week I was pestering you all with questions about formatting a
new Hitachi Deskstar 250GB hard disk I was having problems with.
I sent it back, the company quickly sent me a replacement and it
worked first time when set up
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Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2007 9:32 PM
Subject: Re: [ql-users] new hard disk
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Dilwyn Jones
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
Last week I was pestering you all with questions about formatting a
new Hitachi Deskstar 250GB hard disk I was having problems with.
I sent
Last week I was pestering you all with questions about formatting a
new Hitachi Deskstar 250GB hard disk I was having problems with.
I sent it back, the company quickly sent me a replacement and it
worked first time when set up today, exactly how all the helpful
replies suggested it ought to.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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like the new and useless NHS project or Trident etc.
What I find extremely funny is that the first two episodes of Yes, Prime
Minister! (originally broadcase Jan '86) were about scrapping Polaris and
replacing it with Trident; and the comments given - eg
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED],
David Tubbs [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
The Defrag with DOS/Windows packs the data together, removing the
fragments that got separated to be a whole continuous area of data.
This is correct.
Or is it ?
Defrag as done by Windows only attempts to stitch FILES back
But after all the trauma, I wish I'd known about the 'Manage' window
before, it makes life so easy.
It has always been there ... :-) ... although now hidden from casual
use.
What comes of having such a simple life on a QL I suppose. Want to
format something? Just enter a FORMAT command :-(
Try fdisk d: in a command line and see what transpires.
I wouldn't expect that (fdisk d:) to work as d: wouldn't exist.
IIRC when
you run fdisk on a PC under [some form of] DOS, you select the drive
number
you wish to partition from a prompt [somewhere].
Although there's a Command Prompt
Dilwyn Jones writes:
Which has made me think - do QL hard disks (QXL.WIN or QUBIDE) ever
need defragmenting? If so, how do we do it? (Never thought about
that!)
I dont know for sure whether QXL.WIN files ever need defragging.
However, if they do, the easiest method currently available (I
: [ql-users] new hard disk
OK, I give up. How do you get Windows XP to format a new second
hard
disk?
The answer is simple if not very intuitive. Windows hides the Device
manger because ;yer casual user' can easily destroy the system from
there.
Go to the start menu, right click anywhere
You really can't blame MS or Uncle Bill if you
don't bother with what is on your PC (XP I presume).
OK, hands up, I didn't know about this Manage utility (and it's great
now I do). But I had been along the FDISK and FORMAT path which was a
much clumsier way of doing it.
After all that, it
OK, I give up. How do you get Windows XP to format a new second
hard
disk?
I suspect that you need to partition the drive before Windows can
use it. I beleieve that fdisk (fdisc maybe) is your 'friend'.
Try fdisk d: in a command line and see what transpires.
I'd been along this line and
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Morning Dilwyn,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
OK, I give up. How do you get Windows XP to format a new second hard
disk?
I suspect that you need to partition the drive before Windows can use it. I
beleieve that fdisk (fdisc maybe) is your 'friend'.
Try
Rick Chagouri-Brindle wrote:
...
Try fdisk d: in a command line and see what transpires.
I wouldn't expect that (fdisk d:) to work as d: wouldn't exist. IIRC when
you run fdisk on a PC under [some form of] DOS, you select the drive number
you wish to partition from a prompt [somewhere].
Dilwyn Jones wrote:
OK, I give up. How do you get Windows XP to format a new second hard
disk?
I uninstalled the old drive D:\, switched off, restarted, the New
Hardware Wizard found the new drive and it's now listed as drive D:\
in
Device Manager.
Now, how do I format it? It doesn't
From the DOS Command line, have you tried FDisk? I think it is self
explanatory but be careful to format the right disk - Formatting your C
Drive would be disastrous.
If in doubt, most basic DOS books will walk you through the procedure or the
Help facility in Windows (if you search FDisk)
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John Gilpin wrote:
From the DOS Command line, have you tried FDisk? I think it is self
explanatory but be careful to format the right disk - Formatting your C
Drive would be disastrous.
If in doubt, most basic DOS books will walk you through
At 09:27 17/04/2007, you wrote:
OK, I give up. How do you get Windows XP to format a new second hard
disk?
I uninstalled the old drive D:\, switched off, restarted, the New
Hardware Wizard found the new drive and it's now listed as drive D:\
in
Device Manager.
Now, how do I format it? It
Dilwyn Jones wrote:
OK, I give up. How do you get Windows XP to format a new second hard
disk?
I uninstalled the old drive D:\, switched off, restarted, the New
Hardware Wizard found the new drive and it's now listed as drive D:\
in Device Manager.
Now, how do I format it? It doesn't
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