Copying 3.5" Floppies to HFE Via the SD Floppy Emulator RevC

[Ziggy72]

Hi all

I have a SD Floppy Emulator Rev C

Firmware version v1.7.2.0

I am running 2 A500's 1.3 Kick Roms & 2 external drives

reading HFE's downloaded from the internet is not a problem

I am trying to copy 3.5" floppies to ADF's (Via HFE's) using X-Copy with the emulator

If I try to copy without verify it copies an entire disk, but when I read the directory of the copied disk it remains unchanged (blank).

If I copy with a Validiate write on, every block turns to a red 8 and then a green 0 on X Copy and it takes double the time. This time it has copied, but I am unable to boot the disk. the Bootblok doesn't appear to have copied and when I view the files not all have copied over.

I have tried Disk to disk option and Even Disk to Ram, Ram to Disk

I can do standard file copies but its the track copy that seems to be failing

I have used 10 different versions of Xcopy
10 different blank HFE files
2 different External floppy disk drives
2 * Amiga 500 1.3's
3 SD Cards 1 * Sandisk standard 2 Gig Class 2, 1 * Sandisk Extreme III 2 Gig card, 1 Sandisk 32 Gig class 10 Card

Every possible jumper setting imaginable (I have an untwisted floppy cable from the Amiga)

I have mounted the SD Emulator as DF0 and a floppy drive as DF1 without success

I have even ripped apart an external drive and ran the SD Floppy emulator from there copying the other way around with the same results

I have searched the forum and can't see that anyone has had this problem.

Is it possible for the SD Emulator to do this task ?

What is the best SD Card to use and what Jumper setting should work ?


Any help appreciated

[Jeff]

http://torlus.com/floppy/forum/viewtopi ... copy#p4826

Hi.

Thanks!

Recently, I had a problem with it, it was reseting when I use the HxC to copy from disk to disk, using a external drive too... But it was a power problem, so I soldered a direct cable from the power supply connector, to the HxC (and using a pc adapted psu) now works like a charm.

And seems there is an issue with xcopy and similar with the ACA630, and I'm using Xcopy "The next gen" to copy disks, and no problem at all.

Regards.

Have you tried the "XCopy Next Generation" ?

[Ziggy72]

Hi

I have just tried it.

I used X-Copy - The Next Generation & Tools (1994-07-19)(ASI).

It copied quickly without verify, but the same problem happened, not all file names were copied.

I tried it with verify on and it works !

Hooray, its a bit slower but at least I have copies of disks that I can't find anywhere online.

Thanks for your help.