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The new units will be available as soon as I‘m satisfied that the driver works But the driver is also supposed to work with the old version, of course. Chip upgrades will be available then, too.

LRESPRing the .bin version is all you have to do to get started.

Cheers, Marcel

mk79 wrote:…. But the driver is also supposed to work with the old version, of course. Chip upgrades will be available then, too.

LRESPRing the .bin version is all you have to do to get started.

Wow..., great!

The new driver version works perfectly on my QL-SD + GoldCard system. Now the system is very reliable and robust. I can finally share the .win containers between QPC2, Q68 and BBQL + GoldCard. I have mounted win1_ and win2_ in my BBQL+GoldCard with .WIN containers to massively transfer files between them. The result has been great, zero problems.

Marcel, a great job, congratulations !!

Hi Marcel.

I have a small problem with the new 1.05 driver version. Specifically, the dev_use command does not seem to work on my system (QL-SD + GolCard 2.49), the computer remains blocked.

For example, the following instructions block the system. However, when the destination is not a win1_ resource then dev_use works fine. For example, the following instructions work correctly. What could be the problem?

Cheers.

afx wrote:Marcel, a great job, congratulations !!

Thanks! That makes two happy users, looks like I can release this soon.

I have a small problem with the new 1.05 driver version. Specifically, the dev_use command does not seem to work on my system (QL-SD + GolCard 2.49), the computer remains blocked.

Ah yes, the DEV device included in the 2.49 GC-ROM is too old to handle the QL-SD driver. I've created a new ROM version for myself, but that is not ready for release. In the meantime you can just RESPR a newer version of the DEV device from here:
https://www.kilgus.net/soft/dev205.zip

All the best, Marcel

mk79 wrote:That makes two happy users, looks like I can release this soon.

mk79 wrote:Ah yes, the DEV device included in the 2.49 GC-ROM is too old to handle the QL-SD driver. I've created a new ROM version for myself, but that is not ready for release. In the meantime you can just RESPR a newer version of the DEV device from here:https://www.kilgus.net/soft/dev205.zip

I have tried load that DEV version but the system reports the message "not implemented yet" and then dev_use does not work.


Cheers.

afx wrote:I have tried load that DEV version but the system reports the message "not implemented yet" and then dev_use does not work.

Just shows that no matter how sure you are that it will work, never release anything without testing it... turns out this is basically the SMSQ/E version of the code. It will load and work fine when you LRESPR hot_rext first. I have however removed the download until I have a real QDOS version of the DEV device going again.

Cheers, Marcel

Ok, clarified.

I have loaded SMSQ/E in my BBQL and now everything with DEV devices and QL-SD driver 1.05 work correctly.

Thank you Marcel for the support.

Cheers!

You’re welcome

Just to clarify, the DEV driver will work with QDOS, too, but it needs the Hotkey extension to initialise.
SMSQ/E already comes with a compatible version, of course.

Cheers, Marcel

OK, this was rather more complicated than I anticipated. The problem is that this QL-SD driver is the first "Level 3" style driver ever developed for QDOS and Level 3 drivers expect that they can change the size of the channel definition block. This works well enough in QDOS, but Minerva "helpfully" restores the original CDB pointer, which is of course invalid now. The QL-SD driver already had special code in the OPEN routine to deal with this, but what I didn't anticipate is that the OPEN routine might not have been called directly from Minerva but from, for example, the DEV Open routine! This resulted in a crash or other odd behaviour.

So there is a new driver version 1.07 available at https://www.kilgus.net/soft/qlsd107_bin.zip
And there is now a QDOS version of the DEV device available again at https://www.kilgus.net/soft/dev205.zip

Thanks for checking it out. Cheers, Marcel

Great!

Now everything works correctly with Minerva too.

Cheers!