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Re: Floppy drives not working
Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2025 10:59 am
by Martin_Head
Sebright wrote: Tue Apr 29, 2025 7:46 pm
Next, I attached a USB-floppy interface thingy that I got from ebay to the new drive, and tried to copy some files over from my Windows 10 PC using QEmulator. It was successful for smaller files, so I got QStar running on my old QL
Loving having some great new software running on the old dog. But attempts to copy bigger files were unsuccessful. Thoughts of the Gotek option came back to the fore.
Some USB floppy drives are known to to give problems with QL emulators. You could try the floppy drive with QPC2, It may work better. QPC2 will work with Qemulator files.
Re: Floppy drives not working
Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2025 8:28 pm
by techfury
tofro wrote: Tue Apr 22, 2025 3:30 pm
Interesting. The
data sheet for the NEC drive says it wants 12Volts
It's actually 5V only- I have a few Miracle Systems double drive boxes with two FD1037As each. Internal PSU only puts out +5 and uses two pin connectors to the drives. One of mine had a bad PSU (damaged transformer), so I ended up just rewiring it to use a 5V/2.5A wall wart. Works fine.
Re: Floppy drives not working
Posted: Thu May 01, 2025 10:29 am
by Sebright
Martin_Head wrote: Wed Apr 30, 2025 10:59 am
Sebright wrote: Tue Apr 29, 2025 7:46 pm
Next, I attached a USB-floppy interface thingy that I got from ebay to the new drive, and tried to copy some files over from my Windows 10 PC using QEmulator. It was successful for smaller files, so I got QStar running on my old QL
Loving having some great new software running on the old dog. But attempts to copy bigger files were unsuccessful. Thoughts of the Gotek option came back to the fore.
Some USB floppy drives are known to to give problems with QL emulators. You could try the floppy drive with QPC2, It may work better. QPC2 will work with Qemulator files.
Thanks for that suggestion Martin, will see if that helps next time I try it.
Cheers,
Alan