I solved the problem deleting, with Qxlwinreader, config file in the unreadable file and copying an old config from a backup qxl.win. Now it’s all’ OK. Thank you very much for your advice. Have a nice night. Renato
Inviato da iPad > Il giorno 3 gen 2019, alle ore 00:43, Dilwyn Jones via Ql-Users > <ql-users@lists.q-v-d.com> ha scritto: > > hdutils DRVCHK and DRVLINK are QL side - they are QL executables. I have no > instructions for them, just this extract from the SMSQ/E manual. > Dilwyn > -------------------------------------------------- > DRVCHK and DRVLINK Hard Disk Utilities > > DRVCHK and DRVLINK are two hard disk utilities. In an ideal world you should > need neither, and if all is well there should be no harm done if you try > them. The programs will work on “QLWA” type hard disks, i.e. on the Miracle > Harddisk, all ACSI and SCSI harddisks connected to ATARIs, the QXL and QL > formatted disks on the Q60. They will also work with QXL.WIN type hard disk > containers, as used on QPC, SMSQmulator, Q68 and newer versions of SMSQ/E > for the Q60. We have no experience with the Falkenberg Harddisk interface > (it might trash your harddisk, we don't know), but it will not work on the > QUBIDE. > > DRVCHK is rather like a soft format which checks the readability of the free > sectors on the drive. It does not check the sectors which have been > allocated to files. If you find that reading some files is becoming > unreliable, you should copy the contents to a new file and then delete the > old file. This returns the sectors to the free space list. Executing DRVCHK > will check all the free sectors and eliminate unreadable sectors. Unreliable > sectors may not get eliminated and it might be useful to execute DRVCHK more > than once. If you have a rather unreliable drive, you may find it worthwhile > executing DRVCHK after a hard disk format as an additional check. > > DRVLINK is intended to repair the hard disk map of contents when this has > been corrupted. (Note that as the hard disk map is in the form of linked > lists similar to those used by MSDOS and other low grade operating systems, > continuing to create, delete or modify files on the disk when you suspect > that it may be corrupted is very unwise. It is safe to copy files to new > backup disks, but DO NOT OVERWRITE old backup disks, or you may find that > your backups are corrupted as well!). The hard disk map can be corrupted by > a variety of software: the main culprits are probably the GST Linker (old > version, not the one supplied by Quanta) and any software which draws arcs > or uses ATAN, ASIN or ACOS (QDOS only, not SMSQ/E!). > > The most obvious symptoms of corrupted maps are "drive full" messages when > the drive is not full or "bad or changed medium" when accessing files. In > the latter case, execute DRVLINK first, then delete the bad files, and > finally execute DRVCHK to check the freed sectors. > > DRVLINK may not completely repair the hard disk map, but it should put it > into a state where it will not get any worse. BEWARE: although DRVLINK is > believed to be safe, there could possibly be circumstances where the cure > could be worse than the disease. Corrupted maps are quite rare, so there has > not been much opportunity to exercise DRVLINK. > > _______________________________________________ > QL-Users Mailing List _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List
