At 07:02 μμ 21/3/2002, Rich wrote: >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.
Hi Rich, My bad... I misunderstood you... Playing too much with Q-Word can confuse you :-))))) >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? IIRC QPC does not support the ED format although probably it could be modified (Marcel?) if a 2.88Meg drive was installed. Given the fact that there are disk formatters that support higher capacity formats (Microsoft Windows supports reading them natively although it won't format - That was an additional "copy protection" for disk versions of M$ programs that came in 1.72Mb disks ) and 3.2 even 3.5 are possible with these programs provided you have an ED drive and compatible controller. I am also pretty sure that the DOS version of Mtools *CAN* read QL ED disks though. (Good luck making it run with Windows ME though ;-) ) Phoebus
