ED floppy blank formated image for gotek

[napsternds]

Hello,

I've been searching the forum looking for DD, HD and ED blank image files suitable for gotek, to use them with my gotek drive and tetroid's SGC clone.

I have found several very interesting posts and DD and HD images, but no ED blank img. I have also tried to generate them with FDI2 driver and ImageFileUtil software from Dilwyn's site, but the generated img are not recognized by the gotek. I ahve also seen that latest version of qltools may work for this purpose, but I am not a linux user, and latest version of qltools is only available for linux.....

Does anyone has available a blank ED img file? I do not know what else I can try.

[NormanDunbar]

Here's a blank (3.2 Mb) ED image file for you. It was created using the "qltools" utility, which you can find at https://github.com/SinclairQL/qltools.

Hope this helps.

ed.zip

(3.37 KiB) Downloaded 91 times

EDITED: To add the image "disc" size. This is an ED floppy sized image and thus, is 3.2 Mb (ok, MiB!) in size when uncompressed.

Cheers,
Norm.

[dilwyn]

Do you happen to know if the Gotek supports PC-style 2.8MB ED mages or QL-style 3.2MB ED images? Or both? Or possibly doesn't matter as it's a .img ?

Might help one of us make an image of the right type.

EDIT: Norman beat me to it (Hi Norman)!

[NormanDunbar]

Hi Dilwyn!

[napsternds]

Thank you Norman and Dilwyn.

Unfortunately, this image does not work with my gotek. I will have to do some more tests with the flashfloppy configuration.

[napsternds]

Do you happen to know if the Gotek supports PC-style 2.8MB ED mages or QL-style 3.2MB ED images? Or both? Or possibly doesn't matter as it's a .img ?

Might help one of us make an image of the right type.

EDIT: Norman beat me to it (Hi Norman)!

Details about what Flashfloppy firmware supports are https://github.com/keirf/flashfloppy/wi ... inclair-ql

[RWAP]

I tried something similar with a version of this made by Zaxon some years ago. I assume that the firmware for the Gotek simply does not understand the ED format unfortunately.

[Pr0f]

But this seems to offer a glimmer of hope (From the reference that Norman provided):

"You cannot format ED disk images but, using examples/Host/Sinclair_QL/IMG.CFG copied to your USB drive, you can read and write to pre-formatted IMG images."

[Derek_Stewart]

Hi,

Is the formatting problem not down to the controller on the Gotek PCB. All of my Goteks are Sfr1m44-u100k 3.5" USB Emulator,1.44MB Floppy Drive Emulators, so this could mean a maximum of 1.44Mb.

Though there are reports of 2.88Mb use.