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Originally Posted by SunSpire
Hello EAB!
I decided to register and join your discussion about this exciting new firmware when I heard of it via the fb community a few days ago.
I have two Gotek drives (A500 and A1200) which both were running the Cortex 1.5a firmware until recently. The Cortex FW is known to not have proper write support as files tend to become corrupted most of the time. So I was hoping this would not be the case with the FlashFloppy FW.
However after flashing one of the drives with the FlashFloppy FW, both my tests, copying files in Amiga Workbench 1.3 as well as copying a whole disk onto a blank .adf file (created in WinUAE) via X-Copy failed, the copy process ended without any errors but as soon as I reboot the system, the blank .adf was corrupted and files changed / copied disappeared. I am using a 16GB FAT32 Intenso Rainbow Line USB stick.
I figured this is due to the fact that the firmware is so new and still in development, so I wanted to know if you experience similar errors?
I'm looking forward to how this develops over time! Great work so far! 
Greetings from Germany,
SunSpire |
Have you tried another USB stick? I had reports and observed myself that ADF write could be reliable, but write reliability does depend somewhat on USB stick performance at the moment. I have plans how to improve it quite a bit.
What was the X-Copy mode? Did it verify track-by-track as it writes? Did it fail during the copy, or silently produce a corrupt copy?