klrw111-78 Posted July 28, 2019 Share Posted July 28, 2019 All you need on the USB drive is the FF.cfg file edited to set host=ti99. With only the 7 segment display, it will be much easier to use the indexed mode and the DSKA0000.dsk, etc named images so you know what file is loading vs having the firmware assigning the files to slots. You will also need a TI dsk image on the USB or will get error Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GDMike Posted July 28, 2019 Share Posted July 28, 2019 (edited) Here's a video of what I'm seeing so far, and the FF.cfg has the entry host = ti-99 The drive light on the Gotek lights green when I try accessing the drive as drive 2. But the disk manager reports error. I labeled a program as you suggested, DSKA0000.dsk VID_20190728_175024561.mp4 VID_20190728_174904303.mp4 Edited July 28, 2019 by GDMike Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GDMike Posted July 28, 2019 Share Posted July 28, 2019 Uh oh... something started happening when I choose initialize. I also found some kinda program from the floppy site that let me load the cfg file and convert a to dsk file. I tried converting ea disk and it put it on the flash drive but the disk manager didn't see the file..then I chose init dsk2 and here's the video of that..I. Excited!! I have one disk created but it won't create let me select with the button on the front panel as it stays at 000 VID_20190728_182420622.mp4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
klrw111-78 Posted July 29, 2019 Share Posted July 29, 2019 Suggest erasing the USB and copying the attached FF.CFG to the drive. The firmware will create any other needed files except the floppy images themselves. This cfg file is setup to TI and INDEXED mode. You can also copy an image to the USB, using INDEXED naming convention. I have also include a DSSD disk image that contains Basic catalog program, DiskManager 2k (DM2k) ea option 5. I noticed the your FF.cfg has host=ti-99 not host=ti99 FF.CFGDSKA0000.dsk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GDMike Posted July 29, 2019 Share Posted July 29, 2019 I sure will!! I was able to get 2 disks to read but that was all. I've come a long way!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GDMike Posted July 29, 2019 Share Posted July 29, 2019 (edited) I sure will!! I was able to get 2 disks to read but that was all. I've come a long way!! Ok, i did that and I was able to read my drive as DRIVE 2, I dont know how to get it to be drive 1, there are no other drives.. anyway, I was able to do a directory and I was able to load DM2K from that image you sent. Now one more thing, What is the order in which to move a DSK file to the Flashdrive? I was able to do the editor assembler A and B disks BUT nothing else would go?? So thats when you said remove the files and DL these and start over...So now Im just not sure what the order is to convert the DSK files thank you!! im making great progress!! Edited July 29, 2019 by GDMike Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GDMike Posted July 29, 2019 Share Posted July 29, 2019 I sure will!! I was able to get 2 disks to read but that was all. I've come a long way!! Ahhh now it's looking like the dsk files have to be v9t9 or something? I dunno, but my e/a files were v9t9 and they came across just beautiful! But 109 other files NOT vt9 did not work out .even if I said convert to dsk. So now I gotta nother step to figure out... But thank you for everything!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+arcadeshopper Posted July 29, 2019 Share Posted July 29, 2019 11 hours ago, GDMike said: I sure will!! I was able to get 2 disks to read but that was all. I've come a long way!! Ahhh now it's looking like the dsk files have to be v9t9 or something? I dunno, but my e/a files were v9t9 and they came across just beautiful! But 109 other files NOT vt9 did not work out .even if I said convert to dsk. So now I gotta nother step to figure out... But thank you for everything!! remember the disks have to be compatible physically with your controller.. if you have a dssd controller (TI) then that's the most it will do, DSDD disks won't work.. etc.. ymmv 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GDMike Posted July 29, 2019 Share Posted July 29, 2019 Ahh.and how to make a blank. I used dm and made a blank but cannot make another? Will not change while hitting the button to advance..just revolves from dsk0000-dsk0002 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GDMike Posted July 29, 2019 Share Posted July 29, 2019 Ahh.and how to make a blank. I used dm and made a blank but cannot make another? Will not change while hitting the button to advance..just revolves from dsk0000-dsk0002 ( Is it my phone or what, why does it take so long for atariarcade to update,,) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+arcadeshopper Posted July 29, 2019 Share Posted July 29, 2019 Ahh.and how to make a blank. I used dm and made a blank but cannot make another? Will not change while hitting the button to advance..just revolves from dsk0000-dsk0002 Copy the blank disk to another file repeat as neededSent from my LM-G820 using Tapatalk 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GDMike Posted July 29, 2019 Share Posted July 29, 2019 Yeah, that's what I did..ty lol 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RickyDean Posted July 29, 2019 Share Posted July 29, 2019 (edited) 1 hour ago, GDMike said: Yeah, that's what I did..ty lol You can make disk images with Mizapf's TIImage Tool or with Fred Kahl's TI99Dir: http://www.ti99-geek.nl/Projects/ti99dir/Files/ti99dir64a.zip I believe they will both let you make images in the formats you need. Not knowing what your disk controller can handle, just be aware that the TI Disk Controller will only do 40 track DSSD images, unless you have the 80 track mod, then only 80 track DSSD images. These should be in V9T9 format, as PC99 is a different type of image. Plenty of info on these here on Atariage. Edited July 29, 2019 by RickyDean 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+arcadeshopper Posted July 29, 2019 Share Posted July 29, 2019 or ti99dir for that matter 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
klrw111-78 Posted July 29, 2019 Share Posted July 29, 2019 BTW the disk image that I supplied has the TI EA files except for the game Tombstone City sourceSent from my iPad using Tapatalk 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GDMike Posted July 29, 2019 Share Posted July 29, 2019 (edited) Cant get the drive to work now...I was trying to make it a single Drive A...Set jumper JA and S0.. then tried the double ended cable OTHER end, no go...the 3 LEDs say FF-00 So i tried the jumper in all positions, S1, With and without JA..S0...etc..no go lol It was working as long as the other drive was connected but it wont fit in the case with the existing cable.. back to square one..not working at all With keeping an original FF and HXCFDE files, I looked at confguring the HXCFDE file with the Setup Floppy tool emulator and settings there to un-use 2 drives. nothing seems to work..yes saving the file back to the flashdrive. Do you have the configs and a file to test with for 1 drive? Edited July 29, 2019 by GDMike Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
klrw111-78 Posted July 30, 2019 Share Posted July 30, 2019 4 hours ago, GDMike said: Cant get the drive to work now...I was trying to make it a single Drive A...Set jumper JA and S0.. then tried the double ended cable OTHER end, no go...the 3 LEDs say FF-00 So i tried the jumper in all positions, S1, With and without JA..S0...etc..no go lol It was working as long as the other drive was connected but it wont fit in the case with the existing cable.. back to square one..not working at all With keeping an original FF and HXCFDE files, I looked at confguring the HXCFDE file with the Setup Floppy tool emulator and settings there to un-use 2 drives. nothing seems to work..yes saving the file back to the flashdrive. Do you have the configs and a file to test with for 1 drive? I'm confused. The FlashFloppy firmware has no Setup Floppy tool emulator that I know of. I have one Gotek with HxC2001 firmware and another with the FlashFloppy firmware and they are don't use the same setup files. You can setup the FF Gotek to read the HFE images created with HxC. My understanding is that HxC2001 drives (purchased from there) can emulate more than one floppy with the one piece of hardware. This is not so at the present time with either firmware on a Gotek. You should be able to use a Gotek with FF firmware as DSK1 by using a strait-through cable with the SO pin jumper and the FF.CFG file that I provided. With S1 jumpered the drive responds as DSK2. If my understanding is incorrect someone please enlighten me. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GDMike Posted July 30, 2019 Share Posted July 30, 2019 I got a upd msg on the Gotek, so I read some more trouble shooting tips, it led me down the path of a upd error. Correction was to make sure the hex file, updfile and FF files were installed on the flash drive AND any DSK files...so that aleviated my error at that time so I've been using those files all along.. There are so many flavors for troubleshooting these and it's easy to make a mistake. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+arcadeshopper Posted July 30, 2019 Share Posted July 30, 2019 I got a upd msg on the Gotek, so I read some more trouble shooting tips, it led me down the path of a upd error. Correction was to make sure the hex file, updfile and FF files were installed on the flash drive AND any DSK files...so that aleviated my error at that time so I've been using those files all along.. There are so many flavors for troubleshooting these and it's easy to make a mistake.Only update when there's an updateSent from my LM-G820 using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FDOS Posted July 30, 2019 Share Posted July 30, 2019 14 hours ago, GDMike said: I got a upd msg on the Gotek, so I read some more trouble shooting tips, it led me down the path of a upd error. Correction was to make sure the hex file, updfile and FF files were installed on the flash drive AND any DSK files...so that aleviated my error at that time so I've been using those files all along.. There are so many flavors for troubleshooting these and it's easy to make a mistake. I'm going to jump in here, but I don't have time to get involved in this topic. What I will tell you will make your task easier; provided you can afford a $19.00 item that connects between your GOTEK and TI disk drive cable chain. SHIFT838 (AKA: Chris Schneider) calls it a DriveSelect board, so you can set it to "3" for your GOTEK, as I've done. I can tell you that my Black GOTEK circuit board is different from yours, but I still think most of the strapping options should be the same. Mine are as follows: J1 is strapped to left adjacent pin, JA is strapped to J5, Red wire connected to JB, and the Black wire is connected to pin left of JB. Also, as Greg told you, "don't update when the update is the same version as installed or earlier". If you use Fred Kaal's TI99Dir, you will have other problems later on related to Double Sided. I don't have time to explain, just use Michael Zapf's TIImageTool to create all your .dsk (v9t9) images. Good luck! Bill 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GDMike Posted July 30, 2019 Share Posted July 30, 2019 Thx Bill Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GDMike Posted July 30, 2019 Share Posted July 30, 2019 Thx Bill Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GDMike Posted August 1, 2019 Share Posted August 1, 2019 It's working.. changed out the usb flashdrive, put the old files back on and wholla! Just worked. Thank you everyone!! Thanks for your patience! And special thanks to you RD. For taking the time to figure out what the hell I was talking bout.. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GDMike Posted August 2, 2019 Share Posted August 2, 2019 I was going to attach a file showing it working, but I don't have attachments anymore as an option on my phone?? But for some reason I have a image of a paperclip with the words "Loading..." To the right of it. Been like that since yesterday.. prob my phone..I'll reimage my phone... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GDMike Posted August 2, 2019 Share Posted August 2, 2019 On 7/27/2019 at 8:13 PM, klrw111-78 said: All you need on the USB drive is the FF.cfg file edited to set host=ti99. With only the 7 segment display, it will be much easier to use the indexed mode and the DSKA0000.dsk, etc named images so you know what file is loading vs having the firmware assigning the files to slots. You will also need a TI dsk image on the USB or will get error Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk But for some reason it works great with hex file,updfile and FF.cfg it doesn't work any other way for me. But it works now.8/2/19 added in. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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