First post, by anetanel
I'm trying to boot my IBM 5150 from a Gotek emulator, running the latest FlashFloppy firmware (3.39).
The gotek drive appears to be detected on boot (no errors), and there is a short seek, but then the PC goes to basic instead of booting.
The oled display shows that the drive quickly seeks up to track 34, and then gives up.
I tried many boot images of various dos versions in 360k and 720k sizes, and all fail the same.
The PC is able to boot with the original floppy drive, so it is configure to boot from floppy.
I'm using the original cable, just swapping the A: drive (which boots fine) with the gotek, using an edge connector to 34 pin adapter. I verified that the gotek works on another PC (a 286 clone) with this edge connector adapter.
When connected instead of the B: drive, I'm unable to read or format any image on the gotek. So I guess the issue is not just booting, but accessing it at all...?
The Gotek has jumpers on JC and S1, and the FF.CFG is:
interface = ibmpc
host = pc-dos
Also tried other cables, and even crimped a simple IDC -> 34 pin cable without a twist (changes the jumper to S0 for that), but it still acts the same.
I have another Gotek with older firmware that acts the same on this 5150.
I'm out of ideas...
Help? 😀