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@bfollowell No worries, thanks for sorting that out. I had moved some posts around and was worried that had broken things, so good to have it all lined up again.
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Hi All,

Apologies if I can't find correct post, if one exists.

I have an Atari 1040STE, just connected Gotek, which works perfectly fine in amiga. When connected to atari with jumper on s0 it doesn't load anything whatsoever. I tried the same FlashDrive as used on amiga. It's on latest FF. Could it be chip on mobo?
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Floppy data line pull-ups?
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Have you put the right (Atari ST) autoboot.hfe on the flash drive?
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tzok wrote: Thu Oct 29, 2020 1:57 pm Have you put the right (Atari ST) autoboot.hfe on the flash drive?
That's not actually required as FF supports .ST files natively.
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tzok wrote: Thu Oct 29, 2020 1:57 pm Have you put the right (Atari ST) autoboot.hfe on the flash drive?
Whilst you can use autoboot.hfe, and using the correct file is a consideration, it isn't necessary as you can simply put .ST image files into the root of the USB stick and select using the buttons, though I would say if you are still using the LED display it's much more difficult to understand what is in the drive and having an OLED display really helps here.

My checklist would be:

1. Is the floppy cable correctly connected with the red line lined up with pin 1? The ST requires the cable to be flipped through 180 degrees.
2. Is S0 the ONLY jumper set? S0 is all you need for Atari.
3. Do you have a working .ST image 'loaded' into the Gotek slot? Test the images using Hatari or Steem.
4. If you have the correct Atari ST version of autoboot.hfe, make sure you select slot 000 to use it.
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