appreciate the reply, Matt! unfortunately it doesn’t seem that that did the trick, another round of feeding it disk images and it still doesn’t want to boot.
i tried the block and sector RX50 images on the dbit[.]com archive both as-is and converted to IBM MFM raw and HxC formats, and the teledisk images on ibiblio[.]org converted to the same. my img.cfg: [rx50] cyls = 80 heads = 1 secs = 10 interleave = 2 bps = 512 id = 1 rpm = 300 rate = 250 mode = mfm iam = no should i start suspecting my gotek (or worse, the system board) or is it still possible that i’m at fault? — .hush Got interesting stuff to sell? Let me know! Looking for DEC, IBM, CDC, SGI, Data General, and more! > On Wednesday, Jan 11, 2023 at 8:47 PM, Matt Burke via cctalk > <cctalk@classiccmp.org (mailto:cctalk@classiccmp.org)> wrote: > On 12/01/2023 00:58, h...@dec.dog via cctalk wrote: > > hello cctalk! i have been working for the past few days on a DECmate II > > with what i believe to be an ailing RX50. i have a gotek with updated > > flashfloppy firmware, but for some strange reason i have been completely > > unable to get the DMII to boot a floppy image from it. > > > > i have been trying to convert the OS/278 and WPS images on the dbit and > > ibiblio archives into a working format for the gotek but none of them will > > work. at this point i have tried too many conversions to recall but they > > all result in the same blinking floppy icon when the unit boots. i have > > “host = dec” in my FF.CFG per the wiki. > > > > has anyone else been able to get this working? if so, could you please > > provide known-good images for a gotek, or the steps to generate them? > > > > I've used a Gotek (semi-successfully) with the DEC Rainbow using raw > image files and the following lines in ff.cfg: > > host = dec > pin02 = low > pin34 = rdy > > The image file format should not be important though you may run into > problems with sector ordering depending on how the source image was > created. It was the pin02 and pin34 lines that got it working for the > Rainbow. > > Matt
