[Coco] Gotek a GO after all!

Robert Gault robert.gault at att.net
Sun Feb 14 17:00:02 EST 2016


Steven Hirsch wrote:
> I feel stupid.  After a bit more poking around, I realized that the floppy cable
> was not bringing side-select through.  I seem to recall that this is the default
> for Tandy branded cables (?).  After swapping in a real drive cable with all
> 34-pins intact, it works just fine.
>
> However, in testing bulk read of files from the Gotek I'm running into some
> silliness where I cannot write anything to the mounted Drivewire volumes.
> Neither one of them shows as write-protected, but all attempts at writing
> anything to either volume fail immediately with errors.  What am I missing here?
>
> Steve
>
>

Did you format or dskini the Drivewire images before trying to write to them?

Robert



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