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Hello thank you for your answer, I have the internal one with raspberry Pi zero W: Ok, got a clearer picture now. Did you connect OqtaDrive to the Microdrive connector of drive 1 on the QL PCB? What was the action you did when you took the latest log? I can see that drive 3 gets activated and some ...

@gozdniJezek123 From the log, it looks like OqtaDrive is pretty much working, so I guess we're not that far off. But before we dive into debugging, could you tell us a bit more about your setup? Is it just the Nano connected to your PC (Linux, Mac, Win?), or did you build any of the PCBs, and if so ...

What I do is: - turn on the oqtactl wihtout the Arduino connected to the QL - after its initialzied, I connecft it to the QL - then I remove the usb from the Arduino - reattach the usb to the Arduino - I do dir mdv1_ (it lights up) - i do dir mdv3_ (not found) - I shut down daemon I would not advis...

Attached you find the log running with debug. As soon as I have it all connected AND power on the QL, the logging hangs/stops. (As seen yb the log) From the log, we can see that the Nano is correctly flashed and serial communication works. However, it looks like there's tremendous noise at least on...

The log has very little info. Please set log level to DEBUG, then run the dir command on the QL, after that, get the log. I'm sure we can sort this out. Edit: To set log level when starting the daemon, do this: LOG_LEVEL=debug ./oqtactl serve --device /dev/tty.usb... BTW, even though I'm quite fond ...

I would be interested in a basic ULA replacement as well. Still have a QL mainboard with dead ULA that I could get back to life with it.

OqtaDrive 0.5.3 has been released.

Can the Oqtadrive be used without a Raspberry Pi, using the Arduino SD Card slot to store the microdrive images? No, that's not possible. The Arduino is really just a protocol converter. It needs the daemon process to run somewhere, for example on a RaspberryPI, which then does the majority of the ...

OqtaDrive 0.5.2 has been released. It's mostly a maintenance release, but there's also one new feature: support for Qemulator mdump (V1 & V2) formatted MDV files, as well as MDI files.

I did Qdump yesterday, and it works, MDI to follow. This will then be in the next release. Everything implemented, and a release candidate is available now for trying this out. You can install it from the config tab in the web UI. Just make sure to select "release candidates" in the "...