HxC Floppy Drive Emulator

Hello...

As I also said here, I am facing problems with my board...

After the problems with the latest Color Lines version (it wouldn't load the files, then it'd try to auto-load the bad files upon rebooting and thus enter a loop), I deleted the files, and I also rewrote AUTOBOOT.hfe and HXCSDFE.cfg from the original CPC Manager archive.

The board is recognized fine, I run"HXC on the CPC, it starts loading and then (when it switches to mode 2)... it gives me a Drive A Disc missing error!!!!

If I Cancel it says "Bad Signature - HxC Floppy Emulator Not Found (0)"!
The board's screen doesn't give any indication, I think it continues trying to read the file...

Now even the last update fails:

-I copy HxC_SD_Bootloader_V1_0TOV1_1.upd to a formatted SD.
-I press the left and right buttons, then power up
-I leave the buttons, and the only thing it does is stay powered on, with all three leds and all pixels on... and nothing else.
-After the bootloader update fail, I tried going directly to the firmware update, but still the same: everything just stays lit...

Any ideas?

...and, I guess, Jeff is on vacation?


[EDIT]...more problems: I copied a few HFE images along with a HXCSDFE.CFG file just to see if I can at least use it normally. It claims it can't find HXCSDFE.CFG...

Is my board toasted?

No not the board, but your sdcard seems to need a reformat.

If after a format under windows you still have the problem try this :

http://www.sdcard.org/consumers/formatt ... EN2905.zip
(Option -> Format type -> FULL (Erase On) )

Then reformat the sdcard in FAT32 with windows.

Heya Jeff!

Yeah... I forgot to say, I did format the card (I do it every time before trying to upgrade anyway), and I also tried the tool you suggested (had found it in another thread).

Over at CPCWiki another user suggested trying another SD... will try tomorro!

Another point : Which power supply did you used ?

I use a splitter on the CPC's 5V line... as I'm typing this I'm formatting another SD to try.

However, even if this was the card's fault or something, how come the CPC manager didn't recognize the board after a certain point??

Ok, a second (4GB) SD worked in loading the Manager and it recognized the board ok... will try again updating the bootloader/firmware and buy a few 512MB cards as well

Will report later...

Probably because the emulator get suck trying to read a defected sector of the sdcard.