Hello. I am new to the Amiga; owned a C128 and now seeing what I missed. I am hoping you guys and gals can help me with an issue I am experiencing.
I bought a A500 Rev. 5 and am trying it out. I've been reading a lot and watching YT videos for help. I want to install a Gotek but am having issues. I don't know if it's the A500 or something else. I bought a Gotek from an Ebayer all ready for installing in an Amiga (just supply the USB drive), and I also bought one from Amazon. I installed FlashFloppy 3.37 on the Amazon drive. Both drives have OLED displays and I can browse the files both the buttons. However, the A500 remains at the WB hand logo with no Gotek LED activity. Both Gotek's are set to S0. I have tried copying the FF.CFG file to the pre-installed one. I also tried copying the HXCSDFE.CFG and AUTOBOOT.HFE files, as well as trying none of these files.
With the Chinon FB-354 connected, the A500 will boot some Floppy games I recently bought off Ebay. Some other disks have issues and won't load. I am not sure how stable the computer is. But if I can load 4-5 different games disks then it should be somewhat OK. Curiously a Cloanto WB1.3 floppy from Ebay boots part way but then gives me read/write errors. When I swap drives, I made sure the floppy cable's pin 1 is the same for both the real floppy and the Gotek.
I did try the pre-configured Gotek in a A1200 and it seems to work. Could anyone tell me what else I should look at? This is driving me crazy not being able to figure it out. Thanks!