You must set unlock bit to unlock write protection.
WIN_FORMAT 1
Read the manual.
[url]cats-chess.narod.ru/QL/DOCS/QubATA_TDI.pdf[/url]

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In souces here: https://bergbland.ddns.net/downloads.htm the subdirectory "ii", file "clock.asm". But it is confusing. ii_clock move.l sv_free(a0),a1 set buffer pointer move.l a1,a4 duplicate start of transfer lea cmd,a3 point to command sequence and masks bsr.s ii_drive try to g...

ql_freak wrote:.
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I only diagree with "... but very few people bought the machine".
"Very few" is even more, than number of buyers of european (PAL) Amiga 1200.

What would be a better solution: Sinclair QL Tetroid disk interface with Compact flash card or Gold card clone + some storage device ? 1) question of games: For playing games - get the Tetroid interface. For calculations, get the Gold Card. But games, with accelerated processor, are accelerated to ...

Possibly the new firmware - FlashFloppy - can bypass the HFE format and read images directly.
But I not tried this.
(Based on anticipation, that the physical format of QL disk is simillar to PC and only the logical format is different.)

mk79 wrote:The files can be sent over a serial line, that is probably the easiest approach to saving them.

But to transfer files back to 68k/OS, You need to have baud.prog and copy.prog already in the system (MD: or ROM:).
Hen and egg problem.

68k/OS supports ROM disk. This is one possible way, how to import essential file (FORMAT.PROG, BAUD.PROG, COPY.PROG) into your system: to save them to ROMdisk, and then copy from ROM to MD: device (using COPY.PROG). There are 2 ROM slots on the 68k/OS card, 16 KB each (32KB altogether) for the ROM d...

Peter wrote:

dex wrote:On MiST and other FPGA Amiga clones, QDOS Classic does not work.

What happens, complete crash? Did you try the latest FPGA versions?

Just freezed after start.
But it is some years ago. Maybe new FPGA updates solved the problem.