Re: Questions about FloppyEmu and Lisa 2/5 compatibility

The FloppyEmu does indeed work with the Lisa 2/5 and Lisa Lite adapter. However, you’ll have to downgrade the firmware on the FEMU to lisa-emu-1.0S7-F11
to get it working. Steve is now aware something changed when he consolidated the various firmwares into a single ‘fat’ release, but hasn’t worked out the issue just yet. No worries - downgrading the firmware worked fine for me and others so far.

On Sat, Oct 7, 2017 at 7:02 PM <austjeremy_at_email.domain.hidden> wrote:

> I also wrote the creator of the Floppy Emu about this problem. I have an
> Apple Lisa 2, with the profile drive. My Lisa works perfectly. I can tell
> you that the Floppy Emu does not work with the Lisa Lite card. The creator,
> who sold it saying it works with "Apple Lisa," also directed me here. I
> purchased my Floppy Emu about 6 months ago. So, I know Stephen knows that
> this is a problem. So, I don't know why he has not updated his selling page
> to explain that it will not work with the Lisa 2/5.
>
>
> On Wednesday, September 13, 2017 at 1:22:01 AM UTC-7, Tom Stepleton wrote:
>>
>> I used a Floppy Emu on my 2/10 to help develop my floppy bootloader
>> <https://github.com/stpltn/bootloader>, which makes use of the tag bytes
>> (it requires them to work at all). The caveat is that I've had the Floppy
>> Emu for a perhaps a year or even a year and a half now, and I've never
>> updated the firmware since installing it.
>>
>> So Floppy Emu certainly supported tag bytes at some point. If there has
>> been a firmware update in the past twelve months or so, though, it might
>> not support them any longer.
>>
>> I'd tell you the firmware version I'm using now, but my 2/10 is out of
>> service for a video board recap. Hopefully it will be a success, and I can
>> check again soon.
>>
>> --Tom
>>
>> On Tuesday, September 12, 2017 at 9:53:08 AM UTC+1, PSchaefer wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Am Montag, 11. September 2017 14:44:58 UTC+2 schrieb Tim Senior:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I too have bought a Floppy Emu rev B to use on my Lisa 2, I can make it
>>>> work on a Macintosh Classic but have the same issue with trying to use it
>>>> on my Lisa 2/5, I have written to Stephen Chamberlin and he has directed me
>>>> to this group to see if anyone else is having the same problem, My Lisa is
>>>> fully working with working 400K floppy drive so the problem would seem to
>>>> be with the Floppy Emu
>>>>
>>>
>>> It may be different today, but in the past FloppyEmu supported only 512
>>> bytes per block. This is good for Macintosh, but a Lisa needs 520 resp. 532
>>> bytes. These extra bytes ("tags") are used to manage the file system
>>> structure (preceding block, next block, ...). I have asked for Lisa/520
>>> byte support in the BMOW comments section some time ago, but Steve saw no
>>> need for this. Maybe in the future?
>>>
>>>
>>> Patrick
>>>
>>>
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