Gotek Floppy Emulator with FlashFloppy
Flashing the Gotek floppy emulator with HxC firmware
Gotek fails floppy drive test
Gotek woes (32KB) - anyone else?
^These threads come to mind..
Generally speaking, the original Gotek firmware is *ss poor (IMHO). 😢
It requires a special partitioning&formatting utility for the USB pen drive.
Which can send some USB pen drives straight into heaven.
In addition, the original Gotek firmware is being locked into one specific floppy format, depending on the model number. 1,44 MB or 720KB.
That's why they're called SFRM72-TU100K or SFR1M44-U100, for example.
The manufacturer wants the customer to buy a specific model for each use case.
By contrast, using HxC or Flash Floppy makes the hardware more versatile and adds support for various image formats.
Which is good, because some boot disks or installation disks come in 360K, 720K, 1200K or 1440K format.
But that's just my personal experience.
I can't guarantee for anything, of course. 🙁
(All information is supplied without guarantee.)
PS: There are Goteks which are sold pre-flashed with Flash Floppy (HxC isn't free).
For Amiga platform, mainly, I think.
Just be careful that the Gotek isn't a COVID model with 32KB of RAM (released during pandemic):
I had lots of trouble with an AT32F415 chip model.
It was originally flashed with a special Flash Floppy version, which I had soon replaced because of issues.:
Just to learn that all other versions are incompatible (wrong timings),
except the version I had replaced in the beginning.
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