Muzz73 Posted June 24, 2019 Share Posted June 24, 2019 Hello all! I have a poor, lonely, yellow and brittle SF354 that isn't getting any love right now and I was considering turning it into an external GOTEK drive. My question is: Do any of you know if I could simply swap the mechanisms and expect it to work, would I need to tweak/mod the SF354's internals, or is this simply not a good idea? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance! Louis Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
6BQ5 Posted June 24, 2019 Share Posted June 24, 2019 Which machine would you be connecting this external GoTek to? STm? STfm? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ParanoidLittleMan Posted June 25, 2019 Share Posted June 25, 2019 Depending on is it floppy A or B for your system . Basically, drive select pins are what may need correction - 10 and 12 . They can be swapped on cable too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muzz73 Posted June 25, 2019 Author Share Posted June 25, 2019 Hi! I would be using it as the A drive on an original 520ST w/TOS 1.04. My son loves classic machines and has several of them but he doesn't have any experience with ST's, so I was thinking of giving him my old 520ST to play around with. What do you think? Thanks again! Louis Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tjlazer Posted June 30, 2019 Share Posted June 30, 2019 (edited) On 6/24/2019 at 9:34 AM, Muzz73 said: Hello all! I have a poor, lonely, yellow and brittle SF354 that isn't getting any love right now and I was considering turning it into an external GOTEK drive. My question is: Do any of you know if I could simply swap the mechanisms and expect it to work, would I need to tweak/mod the SF354's internals, or is this simply not a good idea? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance! Louis Yes I did that, works perfect. You need to get an extension cable for power and ribbon cable to make it fit and some stand offs. But works perfect. Keep in mind that even though it works as a drive B: a lot of games will need it to be as a drive A: So that might be a problem. Works perfect on a 520ST though! (Below it you can see another drive I modded with a PC 1.44 mech in the same way, works great as a 720k drive) Edited June 30, 2019 by tjlazer 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
towmater Posted July 4, 2019 Share Posted July 4, 2019 I wasn't going to destroy a SF314 to make it a FlashFloppy, but since discovering that the previous owner had simply put a hacked 314 cover on an SF354, I went for it. Any suggestions as to why the B: drive only shows as "0 bytes empty" no matter which SF file I choose on the Gotek? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
towmater Posted July 5, 2019 Share Posted July 5, 2019 20 hours ago, towmater said: Any suggestions as to why the B: drive only shows as "0 bytes empty" no matter which SF file I choose on the Gotek? Out of frustration I moved the drive to inside the ST, and even tried going to HXC compatibility mode, still nothing shows up. I read that early ST's were not compatible with Gotek because of the floppy controller IC, but I thought this was solved by FlashFloppy? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
256 colors Posted July 5, 2019 Share Posted July 5, 2019 In case you don't have them hope these help HxCFloppyEmulator Manager v1.46 https://hxc2001.com/download/floppy_drive_emulator/SDCard_HxC_Floppy_Emulator_Manager.zip FlashFloppy firmware is 2.13 https://github.com/keirf/FlashFloppy/wiki/Downloads HXCFE_file_selector_V1_89 https://github.com/jfdelnero/HXCFE_file_selector/releases Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
towmater Posted July 6, 2019 Share Posted July 6, 2019 21 hours ago, 256 colors said: In case you don't have them hope these help FlashFloppy firmware is 2.13 I used FF V3.2, perhaps I should downgrade if it is buggy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
256 colors Posted July 6, 2019 Share Posted July 6, 2019 (edited) 3.2 is stated as experimental so it could be buggy Edited July 6, 2019 by 256 colors Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vattari Posted July 7, 2019 Share Posted July 7, 2019 I used FF V3.2, perhaps I should downgrade if it is buggy.I can confirm 3.1 works fine thoughSent from my iPad using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
towmater Posted July 8, 2019 Share Posted July 8, 2019 On 7/5/2019 at 8:36 AM, towmater said: I read that early ST's were not compatible with Gotek because of the floppy controller IC, but I thought this was solved by FlashFloppy? Actually OP was able to make it work with an original ST, so I am flummoxed. Can someone confirm the jumper settings on an ST Gotek? Right now I just have the drive 0 select jumper installed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwald Posted August 2, 2019 Share Posted August 2, 2019 (edited) On 7/9/2019 at 1:43 AM, towmater said: Actually OP was able to make it work with an original ST, so I am flummoxed. Can someone confirm the jumper settings on an ST Gotek? Right now I just have the drive 0 select jumper installed. I followed the guide here: And it worded. My FF.CFG looks like this, it's just the defaults, until I got bored of copy and pasting lol: interface = shugart host = ensoniq pin02 = auto pin34 = auto write-protect = no side-select-glitch-filter = 0 track-change = realtime index-suppression = yes head-settle-ms = 12 motor-delay = ignore chgrst = step ejected-on-startup = yes image-on-startup = last display-probe-ms = 2000 autoselect-file-secs = 2 autoselect-folder-secs = 2 folder-sort = always sort-priority = folders nav-mode = default nav-loop = yes twobutton-action = zero rotary = none I think it works, I'm still new to 520STFM, it reads some .st files okay, with _0_ and puts an error message (i forgot what exectaly now, something like E3E) on the ones it can't.. which is most of what I have ? I used the male to male USB cable to flash it BTW: Edited August 2, 2019 by gwald 520STFM 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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