![]() This device, very cleverly, stands in as a real hardware floppy drive. Anyway, I´ve got a lot to do.In the not too distant past, I was made aware of the Gotek Floppy Drive Emulator. The odd part is there seemed to be some consensus the jumpers for the SY77 must be on S0=M0. So I must place the jumpers at the JC and S1 and configure the OS for PC compatible. See Host Platforms for detailed instructions and troubleshooting for specific host systems." The host system may expect the Gotek to respond as 'unit 1': in this case place the selection jumper at location S1 at the rear of the Gotek.Īn alternative method to specify the interface mode (Shugart or PC) is via the FF.CFG file. To select this interface mode place a jumper at location JC at the rear of the Gotek. IBM PC compatibles use a slightly modified interface which places the disk-changed signal on a different pin. Therefore place the selection jumper at location S0 at the rear of the Gotek. Shugart-compatible systems will typically expect the Gotek to respond as 'unit 0'. This is compatible with a broad range of systems including Amiga, Atari ST, Amstrad CPC, and many other devices. Set up the physical interface to the host systemĬonfigure the operating mode for image navigationīy default FlashFloppy will emulate the Shugart floppy interface. Add some valid image files to the USB drive." So E34 means "No entries to navigate: Direct Navigation mode found no valid directories or image files to display. It´s apparently working as it should, as it even lets me update the firmware via USB thumbdrive only. On the FlashFloppy site it´s said the only difference between the 1.44 model and the 720k Gotek models is in the firmware, and that the FlashFloppy firmware is the same for both models, so I flashed it in according to these instructions: It did autoformat the thumbdrive, but the SY kept saying "bad disk". Even pressing both buttons at startup for the auto-format feature. I also tried different jumper combinations, several thumbdrives, several formats. I believe I got the connections right, but if someone knows of any shortcomings, please advice. I didn´t use an adapter BTW, having instead desoldered the 34 pin and the power connector and soldering directly the 26 pin cable from the SY to the Gotek´s PCB. Seeing that you need to adapt the 26 pins to 34, just like with the 1.44 floppy drives that reportedly work with the SY, I thought I´d give it a shot. It should have been the 720k version, I know, but that was the only model available at the local importer. OK, so I bought a Gotek SFR1M44-U100K USB floppy emulator for the SY77. ![]()
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