Rich,
note that your floppy problems may be on your Aurora end of things.
Since the KnightSafe compresses files anyway, try to format the disks from the PC as regular DOS ones and then use these.
SMSQ will write them allthough extremely slowly but it's good enough if you can do your job.
Also I remember you stating something about 2700 and some odd sectors format. QPC formats at 2440 sectors... maybe you are
using ED disks... or ED drives????
No, Phoebus, I am definitely formatting HD disks on the Aurora (2440 sectors). The figures I gave were filelengths... I tried formatting the disks on the PC as well and this did not work either.
I eventually got the files across by copying to PC format disks, except for the fact that the longer file which fills a QL HD disk would not fit on a PC formatted disk, so I had to split it... Could this be the problem, in that the file was slightly too long for PC formatted HD disks??
By the way, talking of ED disk drives - the QL formats them at 3.2Mb (we know), whereas the PC formats them at 2.8Mb (and the BIOS only recognises them as 2.8Mb) - does this mean that if I put an ED disk drive in my PC, QPC will not be able to use QL formatted ED disks??? Does anyone know?
Rich Mellor
RWAP Software
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