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Turns out the remaining file name after characters #8 is stored in a field called reserved. It even has web editor that allows you to load local files! It comes bundled with support for FAT partitions. That’s then that I discovered Kaitai Struct, set of libraries / descriptor format for parsing file(system) formats.
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Haha! The full file names are legible 2 in the file allocation table!īut how is that possible that our previous tools weren’t able to parse them?Īnd how to programmatically extract files with those full names? Reverse engineering: Kaitai Struct to the rescue The next logical step was to boot up an hex viewer/editor 1 and to try to understand what’s going on. So apparently, Akai decided to do something custom instead of vFAT in 1999 even though it was already there since Windows 95. In fact, those commands are pretty smart at determining the filesystem type by themselves and setting it manually (using -t vfat) didn’t help. So I just thought that the MPC simply uses vFAT and that I was using the wrong arguments when using mount / mtools. This feature is called LFN (for Long File Names) and uses “dummy” interleaved file records for storing those longer names. vFAT or not vFATĪfter googling a bit, I discovered that something called vFAT allows having file names longer than 8 characters on any FAT partition. $ sudo mdir -i $(( 4 * 1536 * 1024 )) ::īut when attempting to extract those files, neither of Floppy Emulator, mount + cp, mtools’ mcopy or usbfd will allow getting (at best) a single of those files. We can directly mount a virtual floppy to see its content: Under Linux, we have a wide range of possibilities.
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There is also an official Gotek software which is said to mostly not work.
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Mounting floppiesĭepending on your OS, there are several solutions for mounting virtual floppies from a Gotek-formatted USB drive on your computer.įor Windows, the best solution is Ipcas GmbH’s Floppy Emulator that works fairly well but needs to be executed as an admin on recent Windows 10 versions. I don’t know if this higher value corresponds to rounding due to fixed sized blocks / segments / whatever or if I’m actually truncating data. Floppies have a size of 1440 kB but we need to jump 1536 to go from one to another. NB: I’m not 100% sure about the value for count. $ $ # in any case, we can verify we have a valid image using mdir from mtools $ mdir -i ~/Documents/backup_gotek_ $MY_FLOPPY_ID.img :: $ # extract an image of a single vFloppy from it $ dd if =~/Documents/backup_gotek_all.img \ of =~/Documents/backup_gotek_ $MY_FLOPPY_ID.img \ skip = $(( 4 * 1536 * 1024 )) bs =512c count = $(( 1440 * 1024 )) \ iflag =skip_bytes,count_bytes conv =noerror
$ $ # make an image of a whole USB drive $ sudo dd if =/dev/sdb of =~/Documents/backup_gotek_all.img ~/Documents/backup_gotek_ $MY_FLOPPY_ID.img
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Therefore, download link, instead of a 5 $ SanDisk chaos / corrupt USB stick.$ # make a single vFloppy image $ MY_FLOPPY_ID =1 + There are other suppliers, who are "just" including a 5 $ Sandisk USB-stick and we think that is a bad provider decision / solution, due to that we all have different ways of organizing our usage and we have seen reports about users receiving corrupt USB sticks. + USB stick and Akai MPC-2000 is not included.
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+ Sound mod - Simulation of loading / saving sounds. + Rotary - Better navigation between images and sub-folders and disk ejection. + Oled screen - better overview, and file information. + Supports USB stick with up to 2 TB including sub-folders. + Fully compatible with Akai MPC-2000 and MPC-2000XL + Extra jumpers and screws for the installation.įunctionality compared to the generic ones + Fully expanded and newly flashed USB Floppy Emulator. + Various Boot disks for MPC-2000 and MPC-2000XL + Few already.img demos files to get you started. + 2000 - Blank disks ready to being saved on. If you are searching for a reliable, user-friendly Floppy drive replacement for your instrument or studio equipment, then you have come to the right. + Download link with digital disks to get started. GOTEK USB Floppy Drive Emulator with HxC compatible Firmware installed