By ajarson
Tue May 15, 2018 8:40 pm
I know that floppy emulators have been discussed in multiple topics, however I see a lot of conflicting information and I really am trying to understand what I'm doing wrong here. I have an MPC60 MKI with the Gotek USB drive. Everything seems to be working properly, the screen displays 000 and buttons respectively increase that number. However I cannot get it to display the "d0" or "d1" message and my MPC gives me an error saying "there is no disk in the drive". I was under the impression that the Gotek formats the USB in the unit itself, but I'm not sure how its done exactly, I have pressed both buttons and it seems to go through some formatting process, and counts up from "000" which I would assume means its creating the folders or "partitions".
The guy I got it from didn't have much to say about the Gotek other than "my recollection is that you have to pre-format the USB drive and partition the drive into 1.44mb sections (to mirror the DD flopies that the MPC used". So I am assuming its a formatting issue that I can't get past.
Can someone walk me through what the actual formatting process for the USB stick is?????? I'm dying to save on this, I'm starting to wish it had the original floppy drive in it because this is driving me crazy, any help would be appreciated.
The guy I got it from didn't have much to say about the Gotek other than "my recollection is that you have to pre-format the USB drive and partition the drive into 1.44mb sections (to mirror the DD flopies that the MPC used". So I am assuming its a formatting issue that I can't get past.
Can someone walk me through what the actual formatting process for the USB stick is?????? I'm dying to save on this, I'm starting to wish it had the original floppy drive in it because this is driving me crazy, any help would be appreciated.