Gotek and single sided disks

By tfh

Prophet (3346)

21-01-2022, 18:19

I've built a Gotek drive into my NMS-8280 which seems to work fine. For normal 720 KByte double sided disks that is.
When inserting a 360KByte single sided disk I run into problems. Sector based demos just won't run and file based disks will give a "direct statement in file" or similar.
Could it be that the Gotek doesn't like single sided disk images?

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By sdsnatcher73

Prophet (3951)

21-01-2022, 20:22

Not entirely sure (I mostly use RDNX for disk images) but have you tried the following from the documentation:

MSX systems require host = msx in FF.CFG for correct IMG layout detection.

By tfh

Prophet (3346)

21-01-2022, 20:48

sdsnatcher73 wrote:

Not entirely sure (I mostly use RDNX for disk images) but have you tried the following from the documentation:

MSX systems require host = msx in FF.CFG for correct IMG layout detection.

And that solved the problem indeed. Thanks :) :)

By Bastion Rebel

Expert (93)

22-01-2022, 09:00

Hello
if you do not use the host = msx the firmware will only see a 720kb drive with this parameter it is able to read 360kb DSKs