Finally got my head around setting up my Q60. Its been hell getting my system over. Tried Sernet - wont talk to my PC. Tried floppies - after filling 80 of them for my data alone, I figured this was not the way to go. Tried setting up a network with Linux on PC - still working at it. Tried Thierry's ATAPI/CDROM + qxltools - could never get more than 90% of a QXL.win file image saved to the HD. Tried CDEZE, only partially works on my system for some reason. Finally, after another catalogue of troubles (Minerva is not SMSQ/E ! being the active ingredient here) used Linux/uQLx to transfer zipped images from CD to the Qdos hard disks - Whew! It worked, and should be relatively easy to re-do and maintain.
1) Now all thats hunky-dory; I can boot my standard QPC2/Atari/Aurora system with only minor alterations to the boot file. However, there are subtile differences: Most QLiberated programs - including QLiberator (3.35) itself - have problems running with COPYBACK switched on. I have to set the cache to WRITETHROUGH. Is there a fix? 2) I cant get Linux to read my floppy. It is recognised in the boot screen as /dev/fd0 HD 2880 but mounting it, eg: mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /a throws up errors - wrong format, IO error, etc. Tried from fd0D720 to fd1H1440, msdos to vfat, various disks, but no joy. uQLx also complains that it is the wrong format - same whether Qdos or msdos disks are used. SMSQ recognises it, ie it is not a hardware issue. fdformat wont run - 'cant execute binary'. 3) Is there a TK2, or clone, available that will allow Minerva to MAKE_DIR, SET_FUPDT, etc ? 4) Is there a program that will scan all partitions on the hard disk for bad sectors (SMSQE or Linux)? 5) How can I run atari-fdisk on a live system (to check that my partition tables are ok)? Can it be compiled to run under Qdos/SMSQ/E ? 6) Where can I find documentation or information on the QWA partion table(s)? 7) Can uQLx be made to run machine code natively under Qdos? Hope you can help! Per
