Gotek

[David Baldwin]

Hi i just brought myself a Gotek for my Amiga 1200 that will go nicely with my new CF card upgrade. I know nathing about it

so hope it will be simple to install when it arrives

[Sinphaltimus]

It will be. Does take some getting used to at first. Highly recommend lcd upgrade.

[David Baldwin]

yes thanks ill do a video when i get it.

[David Baldwin]

can i use the gotek on other computers like my atari ste.

[Sinphaltimus]

Yes if the firmware supports it. There's other firmware versions like HxC (I imagine on your Amiga ready GoTek you have Cortex installed).

[David Baldwin]

So its upto the setup that determins the kind of disk to emulate i will get one for my atari 520ste as well later.

[Sinphaltimus]

Here's the page for several HxC firmwares. The release notes for each mention the support.

 

http://hxc2001.com/download/floppy_drive_emulator/index.html#stm32hxc

[David Baldwin]

thanks for the link

[Sinphaltimus]

YW

[David Baldwin]

Hello Sinphaltimus i got my Gotek working in my 1200 i had to make a 4 pin power cable up and find a 44 pin cable as i never got any cables with mine

just the plastic bag with the gotel scrws and usb. i am getting a nather one for my 520ste this week i will most likely make more cables up.

[David Baldwin]

Here is my Amiga A1200 with the Gotek

 

[Sinphaltimus]

Awesome. Nice setup BTW.

 

Edited September 12, 2016 by Sinphaltimus

[David Baldwin]

can i puul out the usb from the gotek at anytime like a floppy to ad for adf files.

[Sinphaltimus]

Yes, as long as the drive activity light is not on.

[David Baldwin]

cool thanks

[Sinphaltimus]

I should mention this. I'm using cortex on my Amiga gotek. I believe=1.05b.

 

Do not change the contents of the usb drive if it will change the contents of assigned slots. It kinda breaks everything.

 

If I were you, I'd make a usb stick image based backup in case you mess something up and need to restore the usb stick to default.

 

This is what you should do, I've tested this and it is safe.

 

Say you want to delete everything on the USB stick and copy all new different adf files.

 

Before you do that, load up selektor and remove all adf files from their slot assignments.

 

Your now safe to delete it and change all adfs without issue except of course the selektor which must always be on the usb.

 

What I think happens is this.

 

Say you have wb3.1 assigned to slot 1 in selektor. You reboot to the slot 1 adf of wb3.1. I believe the slot assignment gets loaded in to ram or rom on the gotek.

 

So if you leave the gotek on slot 1, remove the usb, delete wb3.1 adf, reinsert the usb, it will lock up the gotek. Can't change slot number with push buttons, nothing. Only way back is to put the wb3.1 adf back. Then remove it from the assigned slot in selektor, everything will be ok after that.

Edited September 13, 2016 by Sinphaltimus

[David Baldwin]

what i did was as soon as i got the usb i put all files on it into my ubuntu home folder made a folder gotek backup.

as long as these files are new and the databas is new i put them onto a brand new 8 gb usb and you get a fresh start

again.

[Sinphaltimus]

That'll work as long as the stick are formatted fat32 I believe. But yes, always at least back up the files. I have a disk image that I can pull individual files from or just restore it to a USB stick.

Can never be too safe.

I'll be doing the LCD mod this weekend. Going to document it step by step with photos and some videos if I can. I'll post the link here when done. I'm acutally uploading files now to post about the 1MB chip upgrade I just completed on a rev 5 A500. I have real slow internet so don't hold your breath. But that'll get posted later tonight or tomorrow morning for sure.