Replace 9114 FDD with Floppy USB Emulator?

[Mark Power]

Has anyone tried replacing the Sony floppy disk drive in a 9114 with a floppy emulator that allows you to plug in USB memory sticks?

The Gotek SFRM72-U100 floppy emulator allows 1000 partitions of 720K on a single USB stick, selectable by push button. See this advert on eBay.

FlashFloppy with the Gotek drive already supports many unique retro drives.

[Garth Wilson]

Or how 'bout SD card? (SD card is much, much simpler than USB, particularly in SPI mode.) (Edited for typo.)

[Martin Hepperle]

Mark,

I have replaced the infamous early SONY drives with a HxC (slim) emulator. At the time, no alternative firmware for the Gotek drives was available.

Such a replacement should also be possible for the later models in the 9114, but so far I have had no reason to do this (fingers crossed).

You can find some notes in PDF format on my web site https://www.mh-aerotools.de/hp/.

Martin

[Craig Bladow]

(04-25-2021 06:36 AM)Mark Power Wrote:  Has anyone tried replacing the Sony floppy disk drive in a 9114 with a floppy emulator that allows you to plug in USB memory sticks?

The Gotek SFRM72-U100 floppy emulator allows 1000 partitions of 720K on a single USB stick, selectable by push button. See this advert on eBay.

FlashFloppy with the Gotek drive already supports many unique retro drives.

Mark, did you try this with a Gotek floppy emulator? I'm also interested in doing this on my 9114b.

[Mark Power]

Hi Craig, I haven’t tried doing this as both my 9114s are working correctly after a bit of TLC.