Ben: Perhaps the Amiga uses line frequency as a timing reference for the drive and 50Hz vs 60Hz is the problem? Bruce From: vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic-bounces@lists.vcfed.org> On Behalf Of Benjamin Krein via vcf-midatlantic Sent: Sunday, September 21, 2025 8:33 AM To: Jeff S <jsalzman@gmail.com> Cc: Benjamin Krein <superbenk@gmail.com>; vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> Subject: Re: [vcf-midatlantic] Can't get Gotek to work with Amiga 500+ It works fine on the BBC Micro. Benjamin Krein Sent from my iPhone On Sep 21, 2025, at 8:29 AM, Jeff S <jsalzman@gmail.com<mailto:jsalzman@gmail.com>> wrote: 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? On Sun, Sep 21, 2025, 7:28 AM Benjamin Krein via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org<mailto:vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org>> wrote: 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). -- - Benjamin Krein