[COFF] GoTEK SFR1M44-U100...

[COFF] GoTEK SFR1M44-U100...

[gtaylor]

Does anyone have any experience with the GoTEK SFR1M44-U100 floppy drive 
emulator that reads ""images from a USB flash drive?

Good?
Bad?
Indifferent?
Run for the hills?



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Grant. . . .
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[COFF] GoTEK SFR1M44-U100...

[perry]

On Fri, 13 Jul 2018 15:13:42 -0600 Grant Taylor via COFF
<coff at minnie.tuhs.org> wrote:
> Does anyone have any experience with the GoTEK SFR1M44-U100 floppy
> drive emulator that reads ""images from a USB flash drive?
> 
> Good?
> Bad?
> Indifferent?
> Run for the hills?

Interesting. So this lets you boot ancient hardware without needing
to keep a supply of (perishable) floppies, eh? Neat. No, I have no
idea if it actually works well, though the amazon reviews for it and
things like it seem reasonable. (The negative ones are all "I have no
idea how to use what I bought.")

Perry
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Perry E. Metzger		perry at piermont.com

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[wkt]

On Fri, Jul 13, 2018 at 03:13:42PM -0600, Grant Taylor via COFF wrote:
> Does anyone have any experience with the GoTEK SFR1M44-U100 floppy drive
> emulator that reads ""images from a USB flash drive?

I'd try asking on the cctalk list as well:
http://www.classiccmp.org/mailman/listinfo/cctalk

Cheers, Warren

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[gtaylor]

On 07/16/2018 06:47 PM, Warren Toomey wrote:
> I'd try asking on the cctalk list as well:

I did exactly that.  I've gotten quite a few good responses, and as 
expected, the thread has taken on it's own life about floppy drives.

http://www.classiccmp.org/pipermail/cctalk/2018-July/040750.html



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[gtaylor]

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On 07/16/2018 06:33 PM, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
> Interesting. So this lets you boot ancient hardware without needing to 
> keep a supply of (perishable) floppies, eh? Neat.

Yep.

> No, I have no idea if it actually works well, though the amazon reviews 
> for it and things like it seem reasonable. (The negative ones are all 
> "I have no idea how to use what I bought.")

I have received my GoTEK and my initial impression is something between 
neutral and positive.

I'm still running the stock firmware on it but plan to transition to 
FlashFloppy (?) after my new soldering iron arrives.  (My last one 
didn't make a cross country move.)

I don't know if the GoTEK is itself slow or if it's a result of what the 
computer was doing with it.  —  My only experience was trying to have a 
Compaq System Utility Partition back itself up to the GoTEK.  The first 
""disk worked without a problem.  The backup routine fails complaining 
about a file after formatting the second disk.  I suspect this may be 
more source than the destination.

I'm sure there is a healthy dose of my ignorance of using the GoTEK. 
There was zero documentation that came with it.  Online searches turn up 
a myriad of versions for the different models and it's all combining 
into a … cesspool seems like the proper word.

I think I'm going to like the GoTEK as I get more experience with it.  I 
am planing on trading out the firmware and moding it to add an OLED 
display so I'll have more information on what it's doing.



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