Re: [ql-users] Q60 and keyboards

2003-08-16 Thread Tarquin Mills
Phoebus Dokos wrote: > ex ram1_lxx;'-m 32 -k ram1_vmlinux -r ram1_ramimg.gz -- root=/dev/ram" > > replace the "32" with the amount of memory you have on your system. Using my acorn I formatted 2 new floppies DOS 1.44MB (they came Mac formatted, which made them cheaper) then added lxx and vml

Re: [ql-users] Q60 and keyboards

2003-08-16 Thread Dilwyn Jones
> } I mean, it should just leak out the cut end shouldn't it ? :o) > > No, it never leak! > The signal propagates along the line, and when it reach the end of the line, > it partially reflect (just like waves do on harbour) and then propagate back, > crossing the new incoming signal... The bad thi

Re: [ql-users] Q60 and keyboards - the Smoke Theory

2003-08-16 Thread Dilwyn Jones
Hey guys, didn't your mums and dads ever tell you not to smoke in public? Dilwyn Jones > Holy Smoke Batman ! > > - > Norman Dunbar

Re: [ql-users] Q60 and keyboards

2003-08-14 Thread Phoebus R. Dokos
On Tue, 12 Aug 2003 15:34:59 +0100, Tarquin Mills <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I was originally using a normal IDE cable that comes with the Q60, in both cases it has failed with me using the central connector. When I first moved to the central connector on the normal cable, it worked after a re

Re: [ql-users] Q60 and keyboards

2003-08-14 Thread Phoebus R. Dokos
On Tue, 12 Aug 2003 19:07:56 +0200 (CEST), Fabrizio Diversi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Ciao, I have the same problems like you with Sandisk brand CF both on Q60 and Q40. Kodak and Pretec CF works perfectly although . The symptons are the same : wrong format, file disappear after a reset etc. Th

Re: [ql-users] Q60 and keyboards

2003-08-14 Thread Tarquin Mills
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: [snip] > Plugged in the HDD Led where? Just so we're clear, my CF adapters > (assuming you're using one of mine from Darren) do not have HDD led > pins on them. The LED is in the case, control by two pins on the ISA I/O card. The LED never lights up in u

Re: [ql-users] Q60 and keyboards

2003-08-14 Thread Phoebus R. Dokos
On Tue, 12 Aug 2003 13:28:21 +0100, Tarquin Mills <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Tarquin Mills wrote: I have entered the program on page 64 of the Quanta reprint of Jan Jones this is proc row_val. row_val shows the KEYROW values. Pressing F2,F3,F4 should equal 25 while F1,F2,F3 = 26. My old PC keyboa

Re: [ql-users] Q60 and keyboards

2003-08-14 Thread Tony Firshman
On Wed, 13 Aug 2003 at 14:04:26, Tarquin Mills wrote: (ref: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) Tony Firshman wrote: ... but I find very few people think properly about termination. Unfortunately a simple scsi system will work (up to a point) with wrong termination (much like IDE). and SATA (serial IDE) is

Re: [ql-users] Q60 and keyboards

2003-08-14 Thread Jerome Grimbert
Fabrizio Diversi makes some magical things to make me read } For the rest I do not think is a problen of partition dimension having formatted succesfully a 512Mb and more partition using Mkpart (1.02). Me too. Partitionning at 512Mb was ok... but using REALLY the file system was not, at least n

Re: [ql-users] Q60 and keyboards

2003-08-14 Thread Tony Firshman
On Thu, 14 Aug 2003 at 21:17:32, Roy wood wrote: (ref: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) > >In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Tony Firshman ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes > and SATA (serial IDE) is already here giving the possibility of > chaining IDE devices. >>>At the moment it is one device to eac

Re: [ql-users] Q60 and keyboards

2003-08-14 Thread Tarquin Mills
Phoebus Dokos wrote: > Roy wood wrote: > > It would be faster on a board which fully supports the device. Quite > > how much gain you would have on a Qubide / Q60 (if it worked at all) > > is another matter. I do not have a SATA drive to try it on so I cannot > > tell. Anyone feel like taking t

Re: [ql-users] Q60 and keyboards

2003-08-14 Thread Phoebus R. Dokos
On Thu, 14 Aug 2003 21:17:32 +0100, Roy wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: It would be faster on a board which fully supports the device. Quite how much gain you would have on a Qubide / Q60 (if it worked at all) is another matter. I do not have a SATA drive to try it on so I cannot tell. Anyone

Re: [ql-users] Q60 and keyboards

2003-08-14 Thread Roy wood
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Tony Firshman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes and SATA (serial IDE) is already here giving the possibility of chaining IDE devices. At the moment it is one device to each SATA port. I have never seen multiple devices supported or multi device cables. I have an Asus

Re: [ql-users] Q60 and keyboards

2003-08-14 Thread Jerome Grimbert
Norman Dunbar makes some magical things to make me read } } Hi Jerome, } } >> No, it never leak! } That bit was a joke - honest ! } } >> The signal propagates along the line, and when it reach the end of the } line, } >> it partially reflect (just like waves do on harbour) and then propagate }

Re: [ql-users] Q60 and keyboards

2003-08-14 Thread Phoebus R. Dokos
On Wed, 13 Aug 2003 15:51:11 +0200 (MET DST), Jerome Grimbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: That exactly what he described! Take a small male jack mono-plug, and solder a 330 Ohm resistor between its hidden extremities. Then plug that jack in the QL-net port! I think that Tarquin was refering to

Re: [ql-users] Q60 and keyboards

2003-08-14 Thread Fabrizio Diversi
Ciao, I have the same problems like you with Sandisk brand CF both on Q60 and Q40. Kodak and Pretec CF works perfectly although . The symptons are the same : wrong format, file disappear after a reset etc. This under SMSQ , but if you want to test the validity of your CF setup you should try with Q

Re: [ql-users] Q60 and keyboards - the Smoke Theory

2003-08-14 Thread Bill Waugh
- Original Message - From: "Norman Dunbar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2003 10:19 AM Subject: RE: [ql-users] Q60 and keyboards > > Hi Jerome, > > >> No, it never leak! > That bit was a joke - hones

RE: [ql-users] Q60 and keyboards

2003-08-14 Thread Norman Dunbar
Marcel wrote : >> I'm far from being a hardware genius, but I guess that as the end of >> the cable is not terminated when there's no drive attached you get >> noise on the data lines due to reflections at the unused cable end. Neither am I (as you probably all know) but how on earth can 'electr

Re: [ql-users] Q60 and keyboards

2003-08-14 Thread Tony Firshman
On Wed, 13 Aug 2003 at 11:02:53, Jerome Grimbert wrote: (ref: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) Norman Dunbar makes some magical things to make me read } Marcel wrote : } } >> I'm far from being a hardware genius, but I guess that as the end of } >> the cable is not terminated when there's no drive attached yo

Re: [ql-users] Q60 and keyboards

2003-08-14 Thread Jerome Grimbert
Tarquin Mills makes some magical things to make me read } Tony Firshman wrote: } > ... but I find very few people think properly about termination. } > Unfortunately a simple scsi system will work (up to a point) with wrong } > termination (much like IDE). } > } > and SATA (serial IDE) is a

Re: [ql-users] Q60 and keyboards

2003-08-14 Thread Roy wood
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Tarquin Mills <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes Tony Firshman wrote: ... but I find very few people think properly about termination. Unfortunately a simple scsi system will work (up to a point) with wrong termination (much like IDE). and SATA (serial IDE) is already

RE: [ql-users] Q60 and keyboards - the Smoke Theory

2003-08-14 Thread Norman Dunbar
Waugh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2003 11:16 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ql-users] Q60 and keyboards - the Smoke Theory This email is intended only for the use of the addressees named above and may be confidential or legally privileged. If you are not an

Re: [ql-users] Q60 and keyboards

2003-08-14 Thread Phoebus R. Dokos
On Tue, 12 Aug 2003 15:01:03 +0200 (MET DST), Jerome Grimbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: From my experience with QLWA format on Q40, it is better to have partition smaller than 128 MB. I'm sure I get some havoc from 500 MB partition, and pretty sure 256 MB is not so safe either. Also, which ver

Re: [ql-users] Q60 and keyboards

2003-08-14 Thread Roy wood
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Phoebus R. Dokos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes As for plugging the CD ROM on. I have found that in some case plugging a second device (CD ROM or HDD) at the end of the cable, solves many problems. As a general rule single devices on double headed cables should alway

Re: [ql-users] Q60 and keyboards

2003-08-14 Thread Tarquin Mills
Phoebus Dokos wrote: > Tarquin Mills wrote: > > I now have serious things to worry about,I have a Compact Flash IDE > > adapter with ATA-100 ribbon cable and 512MB flash card. The first time I > > formated it, format said 32MB in sectors. 'Dir'ing the flash found all > > but 137K of 488MB avail

Re: [ql-users] Q60 and keyboards

2003-08-14 Thread Jerome Grimbert
Norman Dunbar makes some magical things to make me read } Marcel wrote : } } >> I'm far from being a hardware genius, but I guess that as the end of } >> the cable is not terminated when there's no drive attached you get } >> noise on the data lines due to reflections at the unused cable end. }

RE: [ql-users] Q60 and keyboards

2003-08-14 Thread Norman Dunbar
Hi Jerome, >> No, it never leak! That bit was a joke - honest ! >> The signal propagates along the line, and when it reach the end of the line, >> it partially reflect (just like waves do on harbour) and then propagate back, >> crossing the new incoming signal... This is what confuses my simple

Re: [ql-users] Q60 and keyboards

2003-08-14 Thread Tony Firshman
On Wed, 13 Aug 2003 at 01:55:34, Marcel Kilgus wrote: (ref: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) > >Roy wood wrote: >> As a general rule single devices on double headed cables should always >> be plugged into the last connector. I have never had a satisfactory >> explanation of this from anyone > >I'm far from

[ql-users] Q60 and keyboards

2003-08-14 Thread Tarquin Mills
I have entered the program on page 64 of the Quanta reprint of Jan Jones this is proc row_val. row_val shows the KEYROW values. Pressing F2,F3,F4 should equal 25 while F1,F2,F3 = 26. My old PC keyboard gets 11 for each and an Acorn PS/2 keyboard gets 25 and 24 (i.e no F1). I am using SMSQ/E 2.98

RE: [ql-users] Q60 and keyboards

2003-08-14 Thread Norman Dunbar
Thank you - the muddy waters are much clearer now. Regards, Norman. - Norman Dunbar Database/Unix administrator Lynx Financial Systems Ltd. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: 0113 289 6265 Fax: 0113 289 3146 URL: http://www.Lynx-FS.com -

Re: [ql-users] Q60 and keyboards

2003-08-14 Thread Tony Firshman
On Wed, 13 Aug 2003 at 23:10:33, Roy wood wrote: (ref: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) > >In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Tarquin Mills ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes >> >>Tony Firshman wrote: >>> ... but I find very few people think properly about termination. >>> Unfortunately a simple scsi system will work

Re: [ql-users] Q60 and keyboards

2003-08-14 Thread Marcel Kilgus
Roy wood wrote: > As a general rule single devices on double headed cables should always > be plugged into the last connector. I have never had a satisfactory > explanation of this from anyone I'm far from being a hardware genius, but I guess that as the end of the cable is not terminated when t

Re: [ql-users] Q60 and keyboards

2003-08-14 Thread Tarquin Mills
Tarquin Mills wrote: > I have entered the program on page 64 of the Quanta reprint of Jan Jones > this is proc row_val. row_val shows the KEYROW values. Pressing F2,F3,F4 > should equal 25 while F1,F2,F3 = 26. My old PC keyboard gets 11 for each > and an Acorn PS/2 keyboard gets 25 and 24 (i.e no

Re: [ql-users] Q60 and keyboards

2003-08-14 Thread Jerome Grimbert
Tarquin Mills makes some magical things to make me read } I now have serious things to worry about,I have a Compact Flash IDE } adapter with ATA-100 ribbon cable and 512MB flash card. The first time I } formated it, format said 32MB in sectors. 'Dir'ing the flash found all } but 137K of 488MB a

Re: [ql-users] Q60 and keyboards

2003-08-14 Thread Tarquin Mills
Tony Firshman wrote: > ... but I find very few people think properly about termination. > Unfortunately a simple scsi system will work (up to a point) with wrong > termination (much like IDE). > > and SATA (serial IDE) is already here giving the possibility of > chaining IDE devices. > >

RE: [ql-users] Q60 and keyboards

2003-08-14 Thread Norman Dunbar
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