When I use my Usb floppy under mac vmware it becomes B: and can be used as flp2 under qemulator.
Tony -- QBBS (QL fido BBS 2:257/67) +44(1442)-828255 t...@firshman.co.uk http://firshman.co.uk Voice: +44(0)1442-828254 Fax: +44(0)1442-828255 Skype: tonyfirshman TF Services, 29 Longfield Road, Tring, Herts, HP23 4DG On 1 Sep 2011, at 13:55, Norman Dunbar <nor...@dunbar-it.co.uk> wrote: > A while back there was talk of the ability to use a USB floppy with QPC etc. > As I have recently had to purchase a USB Floppy from Amazon (£10 delivered!) > I decided to test it out and see what's what. > > Linux: > > On Linux, the drive plugs in and just works. It cannot read QL Floppies > without a QL5A/QL5B filesystem (yet). > > QPC cannot see the device as flp1_. QPAC2's files menu also seems "no medium" > when I attempt to look at the files and SBasic retunes a dir of win1_ > (PROG_USE and DATA_USE set to win1) if I attempt to dir flp1_. > > > Windows XP: > > When I absolutely have to, I run XP in a VirtualBox emulator VM. As expected, > the USB floppy turns up as drive A: and can be read from DOS, Windows > Explorer. > > QPC happily sees the device and can read from it. QPAC2's files menu can also > see it and read it happily. > > > Windows 7: > > To be tested. > > > On a similar note, I have downloaded Jonathan Hudson's qltools, qxltools and > wxqt2 from "The Dead Letter Drop" and attempted to compile them on OpenSuse > 11.4 running GCC version "gcc (SUSE Linux) 4.5.1 20101208 [gcc-4_5-branch > revision 167585]". > > qltools: needed a few changes to make it work. I can happily read from a > floppy image or from the device itself (/dev/usb_floppy), I can write to and > format new floppy images - I have not tried writing to my (precious) floppies > yet. > > Formatting a floppy directly doesn't work, but formatting a floppy image > does. However, it formats "short" in as much as if I ask it to format me an > HD floppy image, I get a very short file and not 2880 sectors. > > More experimenting to be done, but as far as images go, reading is fine, > writing is fine, formatting is fine (see above) as is getting directory > listings and info etc. > > Physical devices allow directory listings, reading of files, writing is still > to be tried and formatting (of a brand new unformatted disc) fails. > > > qxltools: multiple compilation failures. Still working on this one. > > wxqt2: Even worse that qxltools. :-( > > > I'm not sure what the score is with Jonathan's source code. I'm thinking that > maybe it could be put up on SourceForge as a project? At least then there's a > safe central place for future enhancements? > > > I'll update that as I experiment. > > > Cheers, > Norm. > > > -- > Norman Dunbar > Dunbar IT Consultants Ltd > > Registered address: > Thorpe House > 61 Richardshaw Lane > Pudsey > West Yorkshire > United Kingdom > LS28 7EL > > Company Number: 05132767 > _______________________________________________ > 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