12 Jan
2023
12 Jan
'23
3:14 a.m.
appreciate the reply, Matt! unfortunately it doesn’t seem that that did the trick, another
round of feeding it disk images and it still doesn’t want to boot.
i tried the block and sector RX50 images on the dbit[.]com archive both as-is and
converted to IBM MFM raw and HxC formats, and the teledisk images on ibiblio[.]org
converted to the same.
my img.cfg:
[rx50]
cyls = 80
heads = 1
secs = 10
interleave = 2
bps = 512
id = 1
rpm = 300
rate = 250
mode = mfm
iam = no
should i start suspecting my gotek (or worse, the system board) or is it still possible
that i’m at fault?
—
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On Wednesday, Jan 11, 2023 at 8:47 PM, Matt Burke via
cctalk <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org (mailto:cctalk@classiccmp.org)> wrote:
On 12/01/2023 00:58, hush(a)dec.dog via cctalk wrote:
hello cctalk! i have been working for the past
few days on a DECmate II with what i believe to be an ailing RX50. i have a gotek with
updated flashfloppy firmware, but for some strange reason i have been completely unable to
get the DMII to boot a floppy image from it.
i have been trying to convert the OS/278 and WPS images on the dbit and ibiblio archives
into a working format for the gotek but none of them will work. at this point i have tried
too many conversions to recall but they all result in the same blinking floppy icon when
the unit boots. i have “host = dec” in my FF.CFG per the wiki.
has anyone else been able to get this working? if so, could you please provide known-good
images for a gotek, or the steps to generate them?
I've used a Gotek (semi-successfully) with the DEC Rainbow using raw
image files and the following lines in ff.cfg:
host = dec
pin02 = low
pin34 = rdy
The image file format should not be important though you may run into
problems with sector ordering depending on how the source image was
created. It was the pin02 and pin34 lines that got it working for the
Rainbow.
Matt