Same here, but USA. I've been meaning to ask again for some time. I put generic floppies in my case, but still can't get them to do everything right that the dinosaurs used to do. I know something has to do with two lines being swapped, and nominally had two lines swapped at one of the last North American shows, but suspect they didn't get fully seated, and I'm no expert at doing this. I may use QPC on the PC to get some QL things done, then go to the QL with the "lamed" floppy drives just for the pleasure of the QL and to get the cockles of my little black heart warmed at doing something useful on "This Old Boat" I mean computer he he.
Again, can I get a cable built to have the lines swapped for using modern floppies on the QL. Must ship to USA though. "Have $$, will pay" :-) . Doug LaVerne 37830 USA SGC, GC, Trump, unexpanded, 2 x 3.5, 14.4 (!) (no use now), Acorn III RGB (repaired, thanks Tony for your efforts at last QL NA though), IBM kbd, microdrives (but not _reallly_ working), and many of the old programs... -----Original Message----- >From: "Dr M. Hanias" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Apr 9, 2008 4:06 AM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] modern floppies and gold card > >Thanks Derek >Can I purchasea ready made cable cable from you to test it? I can pay via >paypal or cash >Michael >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Derek Stewart" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2008 10:38 AM >Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] modern floppies and gold card > > >> Hi, Norman, >> >> Older floppy drives have a switchable resistor to select the drive 0 -3 >> which refers to FLP1_ to FLP4_, but the modern PC HD drives have a >> resistor soldered onto the drive select part of the board to permanently >> select drive 1. The cable to the I/O card or motherboard has a twist in >> the control lines, which allows Drive 1 and Drive 2 to be selected. >> >> To get PC floppy disk drives to work on a QL Disk Interface i.e. >> Supergold card, Gold card, a another cable is required with the drive >> select wires going to Drive 0 for FLP1_ and Drive Select 1 for FLP2_ >> >> I think I had some cables made up. >> >> Derek >> >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>> Morning Michael, >>> >>> >>>>> Is any way to connect a moderd floppy with GOLD CARD? >>>>> >>> >>> I'm not sure what you mean. I used to have a Gold Card and it was able to >>> run the modern3.2 MB ED drives simply by plugging them into the floppy >>> interface. >>> >>> >>> Cheers, >>> Norman. >>> _______________________________________________ >>> QL-Users Mailing List >>> http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm >>> >>> >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> QL-Users Mailing List >> http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm >> > >_______________________________________________ >QL-Users Mailing List >http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
