Troubleshooting FAQ

• General
• Commodore Amiga
• Image Formats

General

• My Gotek will only display 'F-F'

  • This is the default display if a valid USB stick is not inserted. If you have inserted a stick then either FlashFloppy does not recognise it (try another stick) or the stick is not suitably formatted -- be sure that the stick is legacy partitioned (MBR rather than GPT), and FAT32 formatted.

• My Gotek will only display 'FlashFloppy' and version number

  • This is equivalent to the above problem, but with an LCD/OLED display. See answer above.

• My Gotek does not recognise any USB stick that I insert, and then afterwards they all fail to work even in a PC

  • You are feeding more than 5 volts power to the Gotek, and frying all your USB sticks! This is commonly because either the connector is inserted upside down, or because of a non-standard connector (eg Amstrad CPC, Spectrum +3). Either way you fed 12 volts to the Gotek. It usually survives, but USB sticks are instantly killed.

Commodore Amiga

• I installed a Gotek in my A1200 but it will not recognise any floppy images

  • Assuming your Gotek is properly jumpered (S0 only) then this is usually because you have an Escom motherboard. Please check out this informative Youtube video.

• The AUTOBOOT file selector does not recognise my Gotek drive

  • First please make sure you are running latest firmware and AUTOBOOT (both are included in the latest release). If the problem persists then the drive's READY signal is probably not reaching the Amiga. You can test this by booting SysTest, running the floppy read test, and check for the "no READY signal" warning. In this case either your ribbon cable is worn out, or you have an Escom board in need of further modding (check out the additional jumper wire in this Youtube video).

Image Formats

• Can you support IMD images?

  • Unfortunately IMD is an archive format which is not convenient for directly accessing specific tracks or sectors, as required by FlashFloppy (IMD files are expected to be read sequentially, from start to finish). Hence support is unlikely to ever materialise. Straightforward images can be converted to IMG format. Trickier images should be converted to HFE.

• Can you support compressed images?

  • Compressed files are not convenient for fast random access, nor for writes. Generally they are intended for archiving rather than emulation.

• Can you support DMS/ADZ/...?

  • No. See above.