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Gotek write on floppy

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Gotek write on floppy

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Hi,
It seem's that Hxc allow write on st files (.st),
does it possible to write file with Flashfloppy and if it is how ?

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Re: Gotek write on floppy

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FlashFloppy supports .st files.
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JmmParis wrote: Wed Nov 27, 2019 6:33 pm Hi,
It seem's that Hxc allow write on st files (.st),
does it possible to write file with Flashfloppy and if it is how ?

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Yes you can write files on a .ST file format disk whilst using flashfloppy.
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Re: Gotek write on floppy

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The last time I tried DevPac, I could not register my test file (less than 2ko file).
I don't remember the error message, (disk full but I'm not sure)
Is there an option somewhere to allow write to floppy ?
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I would use a pc emulator and make yourself a number of blank floppy disk images and try those.

Theres not a read write setting other than the rw options similar to what youd have in windows.
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Re: Gotek write on floppy

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Yep, I have successfully created a blank .ST disk image with Hatari or STEEM SSE and then used a Gotek with FlashFloppy to read/write/format the image file.
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Re: Gotek write on floppy

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You could force write protect, but by default, write is enabled. Only be aware that formatting to a higher capacity (more tracks/sectors) than original image size will corrupt the image file.
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