[cctalk] Re: Gotek as RX50 replacement for DECmate II

2023-01-11 Thread Matt Burke via cctalk
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 DMI

[cctalk] Re: Gotek as RX50 replacement for DECmate II

2023-01-11 Thread h...@dec.dog via cctalk
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 teled

[cctalk] Re: Gotek as RX50 replacement for DECmate II

2023-01-11 Thread Warner Losh via cctalk
On Wed, Jan 11, 2023 at 8:14 PM h...@dec.dog via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > 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 o

[cctalk] Re: Gotek as RX50 replacement for DECmate II

2023-01-11 Thread h...@dec.dog via cctalk
still no luck there unfortunately, i disabled interleaving and changed the id to 0 as well, it still does not want to boot. the cable i’m using is straight through though, i’m using the cable the came with the unit originally. i have another on the way just in case but since this cable is pretty