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Cristian wrote: Anyway, this doesn't seem a general issue but sounds like a matter of unlucky hardware/software combination.

For a pure coincidence, it happens too regularly (to my taste). But our mileages seem to vary.

Regards,
Tobias

You cannot re-format a disk that was originally formatted on a DD drive on an HD drive. I can't understand which type of floppy drive you're talking about. The normal 3.5" PC floppy drives have always formatted DD and HD disks in HD and DD and vice versa: you only need to cover/make the floppy...

You cannot re-format a disk that was originally formatted on a DD drive on an HD drive. The tracks are wider on DD and a HD drive is not able to erase all of the information the DD drive has put on the disk. Such disks either need to be erased entirely using a (very) strong magnet or need to be re-...

Cristian wrote:Also this link may be interesting:

I use the very same driver for my Fuji drive

Note that some of the things that can go wrong are: You cannot re-format a disk that was originally formatted on a DD drive on an HD drive. The tracks are wider on DD and a HD drive is not able to erase all of the information the DD drive has put on the disk. Such disks either need to be erased enti...

Peter, it's not the driver that limits the length of a QDOS path name. Actually, it's the channel definition block (that is, the message vehicle between the driver and the OS) that is actually allocated by QDOS that limits this length (A CDB reserves exacly 40 bytes for a path name). Another data st...

Perhaps I might be also wrong and Sinclair had specific build to order heads? Tomas Tomas, I'd really be astonished if Sinclair would have used specific heads for the MDs. This would absolutely not fit with their normal "design for cheap components" attitude. The Service manual says: 7.3....

Witty guy, that Nigel Searle:

"Sound - Is it Stereo?" - "Well, if you got two QLs on the Local Area Network..."

Very interesting, thanks for providing the link.

Tobias

Just checked: The "HOME" thing is available to straight old QDOS as well - See Dilwyn's page on "Toolkits"

Tobias

Georgio, there is a number of extensions that support you in the arrangements of directories and finding executable programs. The most important one might be the pth_ device - This does more or less what PATH does in Linux and Windows, but different (you might have thought so...) - And it relieves y...