For you, who probably have generic PC stuff, would be unworth. Is something fails, or you can't make the thing work with your specific equipment, you will have to debug the firmware and discover what failed by yourself. In any case, bootloader license is cheap, and by using HxC firmware the owner also has access to unlimited support and ways to make its device to work with his/her specific piece of hardware. If wasn't by him, and him alone, you wouldn't even have this unsupported clone, having to conform with gotek's built in firmware limitations. Giving this thing uses the HxC format, and makes use of many stuff discovered by Jeff first about Gotek hardware, along with its possibilities, you should be thankful to him. Oh goodie Yo do not have to pay money for f.g bootstrap or something ? Here's an external forum thread with further discussion/information. img files seems to be planned for future releases, very nice ?įlashFloppy might not be mature enough to replace HxC or the original Gotek firmware for PC use yet, but it looks extremely promising. When writing this, 1.44MB floppy images aren't officially supported yet, so things were as expected a bit flaky, however, it seems to be very actively developed, so hopefully that's a thing of the past soon enough. Converted and played around some with a few images. hfe with the HxC Floppy Emulator Software. hfe images from a FAT32 formatted USB mass storage device, images of various formats can easily be converted to. If you however like me, got a Cortex flashed drive you have no use for, you've got nothing to lose, you can always go back to Cortex if you want.įlashFloppy loads HxC. It should be mentioned that at least I couldn't find any images of the original firmware, and it seems like it can't be dumped from the Gotek either, so the procedure seems to be irreversible. Tried both using an USB-TTL adapter + stm32flash, and a straight USB A male-to-male cable + DfuSe (hint: if you don't want to register to download DfuSe, there's a download link in post #11 here). More info about the flashing procedure here. Installed FlashFloppy on my Gotek, was easy enough. Primarily it seems to be a replacement for the Cortex Amiga floppy emulation firmware, but since the author has begun to add PC floppy support in the latest release, I thought some of you guys might be interested too.
Yes, for the Micro you need a sketch that copies characters from Serial (USB) to Serial1 (TTL Serial) and vice-versa.Stumbled upon this when googling around for an original firmware image to restore a Cortex flashed Gotek drive:
I was not familiar enough with the Micro to recognize that your original information was false.ģ) In making a USB to 3.3V TTL adapter shouldn't there be software loaded into it? When it's connected to a PC (USB port) how does Windows (Windows XP) detect it and assign a com port? That trick won't work on the Micro where that main processor connects to USB directly. That only works with ATmega328P-based Arduinos that have a separate on-board USB to Serial chip. 1) Can I get away with only using the voltage (5V) from the USB port (PC USB port) or should I supply the nano with an external 5V power supply?Īs long as you don't need more than 500 mA the USB power should be plenty.Ģ) How does connecting the reset to ground turn it into a USB to 3.3V TTL (serial) converter/adapter?