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TT suddenly stopped reading 1.44mb
Posted: 04 Apr 2025 08:30
by Steve
Hi guys,
I really don't know where to start looking, why would my TT suddenly stop reading 1.44mb floppies? 720k is still ok.
To be clear: I have a Gotek, not a real drive. But it's worked literally for 5 years with the Gotek. I have 1.44mb and 720k blank floppy images on the SD card, when I choose the 1.44mb image TOS will just say something along the lines of 'Disk not readable / corrupted'. When I choose the 720k it works fine.
I don't have another 1.44mb drive to test, but I highly doubt the Gotek is malfunctioning...
Re: TT suddenly stopped reading 1.44mb
Posted: 04 Apr 2025 09:05
by rubber_jonnie
Steve wrote: 04 Apr 2025 08:30
Hi guys,
I really don't know where to start looking, why would my TT suddenly stop reading 1.44mb floppies? 720k is still ok.
To be clear: I have a Gotek, not a real drive. But it's worked literally for 5 years with the Gotek. I have 1.44mb and 720k blank floppy images on the SD card, when I choose the 1.44mb image TOS will just say something along the lines of 'Disk not readable / corrupted'. When I choose the 720k it works fine.
I don't have another 1.44mb drive to test, but I highly doubt the Gotek is malfunctioning...
Do you have a different USB stick you can try with it?
Re: TT suddenly stopped reading 1.44mb
Posted: 04 Apr 2025 13:28
by Badwolf
Steve wrote: 04 Apr 2025 08:30
To be clear: I have a Gotek, not a real drive. But it's worked literally for 5 years with the Gotek. I have 1.44mb and 720k blank floppy images on the SD card, when I choose the 1.44mb image TOS will just say something along the lines of 'Disk not readable / corrupted'. When I choose the 720k it works fine.
Really stupid question, but worth ruling out: have you tried a different 1.44 image?
My goteks have a habit of bolloxing up the images if the right combination of factors occur.
BW
Re: TT suddenly stopped reading 1.44mb
Posted: 04 Apr 2025 17:18
by Steve
Yeah I suppose you guys are correct, try the easy fixes first :) I'll report back once I try a new card and image.
Re: TT suddenly stopped reading 1.44mb
Posted: 04 Apr 2025 20:00
by Steve
Today I formatted the sd-card with the official sd-card formatter tool with overwrite enabled, just to make sure. Then I copied new images and tried again, unfortunately only 720k working still :/
Re: TT suddenly stopped reading 1.44mb
Posted: 05 Apr 2025 06:17
by don_apple
What firmware do you use on the Gotek?
Have you checked if the disk images are readable in an Atari emulator like Hatari?
Re: TT suddenly stopped reading 1.44mb
Posted: 05 Apr 2025 09:04
by Steve
don_apple wrote: 05 Apr 2025 06:17
What firmware do you use on the Gotek?
Have you checked if the disk images are readable in an Atari emulator like Hatari?
Not sure about the firmware. It's a GoEx type. Yes of course, the images were generated by Hatari. Like I said, this has been working for 5 years. It only stopped recently.
Re: TT suddenly stopped reading 1.44mb
Posted: 05 Apr 2025 09:20
by rubber_jonnie
OK, so do you have any spare 1.44MB drives or generic Goteks you can test with in place of the Goex?
If not, then can you test the Goex in another machine that supports 1.44MB? That way you could at least rule out the drive/machine.
Re: TT suddenly stopped reading 1.44mb
Posted: 05 Apr 2025 20:21
by Steve
rubber_jonnie wrote: 05 Apr 2025 09:20
OK, so do you have any spare 1.44MB drives or generic Goteks you can test with in place of the Goex?
If not, then can you test the Goex in another machine that supports 1.44MB? That way you could at least rule out the drive/machine.
Ok yes, of course, that's the logical next step. Thanks. I will get around to this, but not this weekend. I'll update the thread next time I work on it.
Re: TT suddenly stopped reading 1.44mb
Posted: 05 Apr 2025 22:07
by rubber_jonnie
Steve wrote: 05 Apr 2025 20:21
rubber_jonnie wrote: 05 Apr 2025 09:20
OK, so do you have any spare 1.44MB drives or generic Goteks you can test with in place of the Goex?
If not, then can you test the Goex in another machine that supports 1.44MB? That way you could at least rule out the drive/machine.
Ok yes, of course, that's the logical next step. Thanks. I will get around to this, but not this weekend. I'll update the thread next time I work on it.
Be interesting to see how you get on.