Norman Dunbar wrote:
In SBasic, the format flp1_TEST command works. (At least, using a 720 KB
disc it does.) However, it formats to 1.44 Mb rather than 720 KB and it's
noisy. There are no HD holes in the floppy - so maybe the drive is lying
to QPC/Windows?
Could you try FORMAT 'FLP1_TEST*D' perhaps to try to force it to (re)format
it as DD?
Some drives sometimes seem to have no sensors, annoyingly. Or at least none
that seem to work.
In the past I've covered holes with sellotape to force one format or another
and had mixed success. I never know if floppy drives are going to sense them
optically or mechanically.
Windows 7 still to come. ;-)
I'll have to dig my USB floppy drive out to try with this new PC (Win 7 64
bit) because it has no floppy drive.
(Oh dear, Norman just fainted thinking of me let loose connecting a new
device to a new PC...)
I still get asked for QL stuff on floppy disks from time to time, so within
the QL community I don't foresee being able to manage without floppy disks
and floppy drives for a while at least.
Dilwyn Jones
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