First post, by Jo22
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Good evening everyone,
I'm currently toying around with a Gotek device,
and noticed something curious.
Perhaps it's nothing, but I'd like to share it with you anyway.. ๐
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Okay, so I bought that device For further education of my own.
Now that everyone seems to use that kind of stuff, I thought it was about time for that. ๐
When I got it, I tried to use the built-in formatting function to format/partition my 256MB CF card.
It didn't work, of course (Murphy's Law). So I tried another card reader - still no luck.
Another card - nope.
Later, I downloaded the Batch Manage Tool and formatted/partition the 256MB CF card.
This time, it worked. Or so I thought..
When I went back to the Gotek and tried the CF card, it still didn't accept the card.
Of course, I tried differend readers again. Still no luck.
That was when I gave up on the card an decided to buy a small, cheap USB pen drive.
After reading that article at pixelnostaglie.de, and because the Gotek uses USB 1.0 anyway,
I thought a that any pen drive with at least 2GB of capacity would be fine for a first test.
Unfortunatelly, times went on since the last time I bought one locally,
so the familiar 2GB and 4GB models were no longer for sale. ๐
I checked both a local drugstore and an electronics market, but the smallest and cheapest they
had was an 8GB pen drive for ~7โฌ. So I ended up with that (I have no money on the mind, but
experiments like that could damage a thumb drive. So I wanted to start with something cheap).
When I got home, I tried the built-in formatting function again and it worked.
Well, kinda. The formatting stopped at no.24.
So I went back to the Windows machine, ran the Batch Manage Tool and formatted the drive,
and put it in the Gotek again. And it finally worked! Yay!
Well, kinda.
When I ran the Floppy Drive Test in CheckIt! v3, everything seemed fine at first glance.
Until it was performing the random write test. It failed.
But even more so, it crashed -or resetted- the Gotek emulator.
It went back from slot no.002 to slot no.000.
And for some reason, the Gotek did nolonger respond to the buttons until
I switched off the PC and powered it on again.
After a reboot, the Gotek behaved normal again.
My floppy image in slot no.001 (win98 boot up disk) was gone, however.
I repeated these steps a few times, with the same results.
(Including different versions of CheckIt!)
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Anyway, this is NO complaint or rant or something along these lines.
In fact, I'm pretty amused right now! ๐
I'm curious, however, so I'd like to ask:
Has anyone encountered a similar behavior so far ?
The Gotek is running with the default firmware.
I'm not sure about the hardware revision, however.
Pressing the device's buttons during power-on causes this message:
U00
126
F01
Any comments welcome! ๐
Edit: Video clip uploaded. Available at http://youtu.be/ewyKYLP7HpM
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