Looks like you covered most every troubleshooting option. I'm guessing the next step is verifying the Gotek itself. Are you able to make it work on a PC compatible?
This should be the easiest thing in the world & yet I'm completely stuck.
After 40+ years I've FINALLY got an Amiga 500+. I've been wanting an Amiga
nearly all my life but never had one until now. Anyhow, I don't have any
physical media but I do have a Gotek (Artery AT32F415CBT7 Microcontroller).
I've been trying for the past 2 days to just get Workbench to boot on this
thing & I'm not getting anywhere.
The computer is an Amiga 500+ I brought home from the UK (I'm in the USA).
Before leaving I was able to see it boot up into a game from the physical
floppy drive without any issues whatsoever. It works.
When I power things on I get to the insert-disk animation but that's as far
as I get. Here's what I've done:
1. Upgraded FlashFloppy on the Gotek to the latest 3.44
2. Factory reset the internal flash on the Gotek
3. Copied *JUST* Workbench 2.04 ADF to the USB stick
4. Tried adding a FF.CFG with "interface = amiga" & nothing else
5. Tried multiple USB thumb drives
6. Formatted USB sticks with both the official SD Formatter Utility as well
as Disk-Utility
7. Confirmed jumper on the Gotek is on S0
8. Tried different 34-pin cable
9. Powered on with both mouse buttons pressed & picked DF0 (only one
available) from the boot selector
None of the above works. The activity light on the Gotek comes on briefly
when it's being accessed but the track indicator on the OLED never shows
any activity.
I've bought Amiga Forever Plus so I'm using their official ADF files.
I'm fresh out of ideas at this point. The Gotek works perfectly fine on
other computers (BBC Micro B) so I'm pretty sure I don't have a hardware
issue. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Happy to provide any other
info that might help too.
PS - Does anyone have a diskette copy of Workbench 2.04 they'd be willing
to sell/send me? I'd love to just see this Amiga work even if just booting
into Workbench (I'm near Philadelphia, PA).
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- Benjamin Krein