flaviosr
Experienced Member
Dear Group,
I have been given a system like the subject.
Everything has been ok for some minutes... I have been able to read a dir of a floppy and then to launch a program from that floppy.
Then I wanted to make a case with two black floppies, one 5.25 and one 3.5 (both included in the kit, but with the 5.25 not black) , so I tried other FDDs... obviously after a while I had the doubt that the FDDs for the QL are not completely the same as the ones for the PCs... I remounted the original 5.25 FDD and... drama! Now it doesn't work anymore! :-(
It cannot read anything. The best thing it does is when I format a FD: for the first run it moves flawlessly while for the second it "grins"... :-(
I am thinking I have done something wrong but I cannot see what...
In the meantime I have discovered the 3.5 FDD is not good since it cannot block a FD inside... but anyway all programs included in the package are in 5.25 disks so I suppose that this drive was bad from the beginning.
Thank you for the help
I have been given a system like the subject.
Everything has been ok for some minutes... I have been able to read a dir of a floppy and then to launch a program from that floppy.
Then I wanted to make a case with two black floppies, one 5.25 and one 3.5 (both included in the kit, but with the 5.25 not black) , so I tried other FDDs... obviously after a while I had the doubt that the FDDs for the QL are not completely the same as the ones for the PCs... I remounted the original 5.25 FDD and... drama! Now it doesn't work anymore! :-(
It cannot read anything. The best thing it does is when I format a FD: for the first run it moves flawlessly while for the second it "grins"... :-(
I am thinking I have done something wrong but I cannot see what...
In the meantime I have discovered the 3.5 FDD is not good since it cannot block a FD inside... but anyway all programs included in the package are in 5.25 disks so I suppose that this drive was bad from the beginning.
Thank you for the help