My setup: Amiga500, 1MB memory upgrade, Internal Gotek, one CA-880 external drive
My question: Is it even possible to copy a real floppy to a disk image on the Gotek using Amiga Workbench, or any copy program?
Hi all, I'm still new to the Amiga scene, and I've come to my wits end trying to figure out what it is I'm doing (or not doing) to make this seemingly simple procedure NOT work. Every time I try to copy a file from my physical drive to a disk image on my internal Gotek, I get some kind of verify error and the procedure is abandoned. I am using standard DD 880KB images, some from the WinUAE emulator, some from other sources. I took some advice and tried with several blank .hfe images, but got the same results. Even formatting images within Workbench is hit and miss, sometimes it works, sometimes after formatting the initializing will fail and I get a 'No DOS on disk error', and the procedure is cancelled. I tried with X-Copy and with verify on I get errors (red zeros or sixes) and a corrupted destination disk. Verify off gives all green zeros like normal, but again a corrupted disk, or nothing at all on the disk! I haven't tried any other copy programs, I don't think the problem lies there. The only time that I've ever been able to successfully save information to a disk image on the Gotek is when I save my Amiga Basic program listings, and then I'm able to retrieve them intact. Is this normal for the Amiga? Perhaps someone here knows a trick or two that can get this to work. My apologies for the long post, but I've recently come into quite a few Amiga floppy disks that I want to archive and put on a SD card. There are thousands of .adf files on the internet, so there must be a way for this to work. As always, any input at all is appreciated.
Thank you for listening to me rant.