Amiga 500 gotek external drive

[Divarin]

Ignoring the add-on to swap DF0 and DF1 for now (until I know this is working)
is there some trick to setting up the thumb drive for a gotek that will be on an external floppy drive on an amiga 500?
I copied the files HxC_Compat_Mode/Amiga/AUTOBOOT.HFE and HxC_Compat_Mode/HXCSDFE.CFG to the root of the thumb drive.
I have two ADF files.
When I power it up all I get is "E31". The only help from the github page is that is caused by accidentally adding the HXCSDFE.CFG file which you wouldn't normally do *unless* you're going to be using it on an Amiga (which, obviously, I am)
Just for the heck of it I tried deleting those two files anyway, same result: E31.

Update: Okay did a firmware update and now all I get is E34 (no entries).

 

[powerlot]

Do you use Flashfloppy? I never had to mess with HxC config with FF and emulating Amiga images. I could check it again when I get back home.
The DF0/1 swapping was necessary to boot from external Gotek drive though

 

[powerlot]

Like mentioned, I used FlashFloppy (https://github.com/keirf/flashfloppy/wiki/Downloads) in its default configuration. The only non-ADF file on the USB drive is an IMAGE_A.CFG which stores the last used image

 

[Divarin]

My first attempt I had nothing on the drive except for the two ADFs, when that was giving me the E31 errors then I went down the route of adding the HxC stuff.
For now I'm booting off of a floppy (workbench) so I'm not really concerned about booting off of the gotek just yet. Once I get it working then I'll get the add-on to swap DF0/1

Well looks like I got it working, I cleared off the whole thumb drive, put the adfs in the root (since my model is using a 7-segment display I noticed in the comments in the ff.cfg file that by default it will only look in root)
I added FF.CFG and changed the type from "jc" to "amiga"
I also added IMG.CFG but didn't change anything.

 

[richarjo]

jc is the jumper for PC iirc. It is also the jumper for connecting a piezo sound module to the gotek.
IMG.CFG is recorded at every session as to the order of loaded images.
If you are using FlashFloppy by Keir Fraser, you can flash one of the firmware files from the thumbdrive by pressing both buttons on the gotek It auto selects the right one.