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In this case EMUFDD claims to be a high end quality equipment maker and as a business they are not interested in to a niche of computer enthusiasts. A geek amateur junkie wannabe x-factor dropout “musican” can also say “fuck them” as they have bad attitude towards possible buyers. If you have another company say a hing end, studio quality, audio equipment makers. įrom one angle yes it is, but I think of it from another. This entry was posted in Uncategorized by tenox. They are claiming that German Ipcas also sells Gotek like devices, so I will be updating my previous post. Update: EMUFDD has provided me with a link to their page that lists all Gotek-like cheap Chinese and Indian made devices – with a warning how bad they are. I’m still awaiting for arrival of HxC, however it appears to be stuck in Polish Post Office, probably due to the holiday season. Do not buy Gotek unless you absolutely have to. So in short do not waste your time with this. However the whole experience was rather horrible. I was able to boot a non-DOS operating system and for DOS based floppies I was able to hold more than one disk per USB key. I was also able to run BIOS built in floppy disk diagnostics.
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You can install MS-DOS 6.22 by flipping the selector to change disks. When it comes to FAT compatible operating systems like MS-DOS or OS/2, you can actually boot and use multiplexed floppies. However the system never actually loaded. I have re formatted the singular drive to 1.2MB and switched it in the bios. The next test was trying to boot Xenix from emulated 1.2MB 5.25″ drive. What a waste, but it did work and in the end I did boot QNX2 on my 286 from a pen drive. What I think is that the non-FAT bootable disk can only be used in “singular mode” where you store just a single floppy disk image on the pen drive. Now imagine rewriting 100 floppy disks stored on the unit… I spent hours trying to figure what is going in.
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Fortunately described in the troubleshooting guide, however requires full reformatting. The system has completely freaked out and went to an error mode. So I started testing with writing QNX2 aclock demo floppy disk using ntrawrite. Gotek has promised me that the Type-F will support non-FAT and bootable floppy disks. On the host computer you can see it as a removable drive in Windows Explorer. When you switch the floppy drive will be mapped to another partition. You select the partition using the buttons on the front panel or from the software. Dividing a pen drive to small partitions and multiplexing them so that you see one at a time. So how does it actually work? Here is a small excerpt from the user manual: “ We will divide a pen drive into 100 partitions of 1.44 mb capacity each.” – err what? That’s right, this is what they are doing.
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Here is a photo from one of the manual pages that illustrates both the documentation and the application itself. It only works on Windows XP / 2000, so I had to run it inside VMware Workstation with USB pass-through It actually did work but usability is similar to RiscOS or Plan 9.
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Looks like they are aware of the software limitations because the documentation is full of workarounds and troubleshooting.
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Written in Engrish is rather hard to understand, however invaluable because without it you will not be able to figure out how to use the software. The unit powered on so I went on to the documentation and software.ĭocumentation is absolutely horrible. First roadblock that I encountered was the fact that the emulator is about an inch shorter and the original floppy cable did not reach so I had to improvise. I went to replace my original 1.44MB floppy drive with Gotek.
The unit itself looks rather good, they have made a better looking self adhesive front panel label. The inner package was even worse, a bit of old bubble wrap taped together with the unit and unpacked cdrom. The FedEx bag looked like it has been used by at least 5 previous shipments and has already circled the globe few times. It only took two days since the order, which is excellent, but unfortunately this was the only good thing about Gotek. The emulator arrived by FedEx earlier on today. Unfortunately the claims turned to be true. Gotek is one of them but from various research I have done before buying it I antcipated it will be the worst. This is a continuation of my another post where I do a high level overview of different Floppy Disk Emulators.
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