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Yes it is.

Put it down to just one of those odd things I guess!

Thanks for all the help and GREAT suggestions!

I tried another Gotek and it all works fine with no issues. Obviously something going on with the first one.

Its a newer model. I may try another one just too if anything changes. Otherwise I guess I will just be using Gotek only. Which is fine.

Yes. If I boot from floppy and do a dir all looks good. Jump over to drive 1 (gotek) and do a dir all looks good there too. Jump back to drive 0 and I get a no sector 1 error. So its almost as if the gotek disk image is changing the expected drive format. Strange huh?

Here is where we are. I set the floppy as drive zero and gotek as drive 1. Booted happily from the system disk inserted into the floppy. Was able to jump over to drive 1 and view the gotek dsk image fine. When I jumped back to drive zero I got the sector 0 error again. So the gotek must be setting ...

Thanks for the suggestions! Much appreciated. All jumpers are correct. I can sent a format command to the disk and it will do its thing but fail on verify. Unplug the Gotek and try again with the floppy as drive 0 and it works fine. So its clearly something on the Gotek. Gotek boots and loads images ...

They are set either d0 or d1 depending on if I want it as main drive. The other jumper is unchanged and set at the middle position. I am wondering if the Gotek is interfering with the ready signal or something. Since the 3 inch drive works fine with the gotek unplugged using the same cable. There ...

Hello there! Thanks for replying.

Yes the Gotek works fine with or without the second drive attached.
The cable is one I purchased from a store in the UK. Straight through cable with no twist. One connector is IDE style and the other is the older Shugart style connector.
Gotek is set to S0.

Thanks for the link. I live in the US so I have been thinking about replacing the PSU in my TC-01 with one that supports 110-240v so I don't have to lug around my step up transformer.

Hello everyone! So happy to finally get my hands on an Einstein here in the US. When I lived in the UK I remember seeing them at places like Dixons. It was a great machine that just arrived too late. In any case I got one and gave it some TLC. Needed some serious retrobriting and cleanup. I was able ...