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Floppy drive emulator for Gotek hardware
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PCW8256 Loading issues #924

Closed A-little-confused closed 3 months ago

A-little-confused commented 3 months ago

Hello, I am trying my hardest to get my Gotek to work on my PCW as drive A: I have the jumpers on S0 and JA, an adapter to go from the PCW to the back of the Gotek, 5v and ground pins to the Gotek and can see when powered up on the Goteks OLED that DSK files are present. But still cannot get anything to load.

What am I doing wrong or not doing.

Many thanks

keirf commented 3 months ago

Do you mean jumper on JA? What firmware is running on your Gotek?

A-little-confused commented 3 months ago

Yes, Jumper JA and 4.7a firmware.

keirf commented 3 months ago

Do not use the alpha firmware. Stick with 3.42.

Why do you have a jumper at JA? In fact this should stop the Gotek from initialising, as it will look like a button is permanently pressed (and put the Gotek in firmware update mode).

A-little-confused commented 3 months ago

Right, I have tge jumpers on S0 and JC. Downgraded to 3.42 following the steps online and can see it briefly flash up when starting the machine that it is now at version 3.42.

Have cycled through the DSK files on the USB and clicked to have it launch, but still no loading, just the beeps (they indicate no disk) as we had before.

Sorry all

keirf commented 3 months ago

Are you sure those are the correct jumpers? It probably depends on your adapter to the PCW 26-pin connector. I would also try S0 only, S1 only, and S1 + JC.

A-little-confused commented 3 months ago

All this help is appreciated. Have tried all of the jumper settings. But to no avail.

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Maybe I don't have the correct CFG or HFE files.

Thanks

keirf commented 3 months ago

Is the adapter the right way round? I would expect pin 1 to pin1, and ribbon stripes matched to pin 1 at both ends as well.

A-little-confused commented 3 months ago

I have rectified the ribbon cable and adapter.

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Tries the files listed but still no luck....

keirf commented 3 months ago

Okay, and that is definitely a PCW adapter? There are multiple 26-pin floppy interface layouts. Amstrad themselves used more than one afaik.

A-little-confused commented 3 months ago

Right problem solved.

Set jumper to MO Removed JC Moved the ribbon and adapter to match 1 on all.

AND BOOM ITS WORKING

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keirf commented 3 months ago

Trial and error wins again!