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Indeed, Spectre GCR 3.0 doesn't work with the TT SCSI (even though it's the same chip as in the Mac Plus). Apparently Gadgets by Small had a working prototype version of the code just before they were taken out of business and it was never released.
Anyway, for people's information, Spectre GCR does work well on an ST with a TF536 (50MHz 68030) and TOS 2.06, though it's limited by the speed of ST-RAM anyway.
P.S. It doesn't look as if Dave Small (dsmall) will see this, he's not logged into AtariAge since 2014.
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I'm yet again trying to determine why Spectre GCR doesn't run on my TT (it never has since both were new).
When I start the emulation Spectre GCR changes the resolution to ST-High, accesses the floppy drive, outputs the *BOOP* and then hard hangs the machine with only the reset button getting the machine operational again.
Does anyone know if the "chime" is being created by Spectre or is it being generated by the Mac ROM code?
If it's the latter then at least I know it's getting to the point of running the ROM.
(The Spectre GCR works fine on all my other STs and STe, even on the ST with the TerribleFire TF536 68030 accelerator, so that's not the issue.)
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Newbie ST Questions - UltraSatan, Gotek, 3.5" diskettes
in Atari ST/TT/Falcon Computers
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Yes, the UltraSATAN is an ACSI hard disk replacement.
It's the same as any ACSI hard disk and the ultimate behaviour depends upon the hard disk driver that you're using, such as AHDI, HDDriver or @ParanoidLittleMan's one.
The Gotek is merely a floppy disk replacement so the Atari knows no difference between it and a "real" floppy drive.
It is possible to install a Gotek as a second drive. You'd probably need to get an external drive enclosure, probably by buying a dead external drive via eBay or some such. Building your own is tricky as the Atari floppy connectors (DIN plugs) are very hard to find and are non-standard.
There are old (ST native) programs which will copy one floppy to another, some even deal with some types of copy protection. If you have both the original floppy and the Gotek then you could save them to images on there. Similarly, if you have access to a PC with a built-in floppy drive then you can read them in using utilities and make images which can then be transferred to the USB drive used in the Gotek, but not all image formats are supported by the Gotek so copy protected floppies will usually not work.
With regard to the UltraSATAN, this is a hard disk device and so doesn't support floppy images, it's merely presented as a series of FAT16 partitions so you can merely copy the files over into folders on the drive(s).
The sorts of files that Greaseweazel will produce are useful for duplicating floppies onto new floppies or converting to files used by emulators. If the floppies are non-standard then usually the Gotek can't use them.