Static casting of signed chars

I want to do some casting from signed char to unsigned char using

QByteArray block;
block = tcpSocket->readAll();

Code:

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unsigned char* ublock = static_cast<unsigned char*>(block.data());

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but get

Quote:

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error: invalid static_cast from type `char*' to type `unsigned char*'

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Can someone explain where I am going wrong?