Patches and discussion for Ensoniq VFX family

I don't have access to a computer with a floppy drive at home, but at school we have some really ancient machines. I'm sure they'd work, just I don't really want to ask them unpess it's a last resort.

My computer has a floppy controller built in, just no floppy disk drive. I suppose I could always ask around for an internal one...

--- In Ensoniq-VFX-SD@yahoogroups.com, Rob Rosenbrock <rob.sd1@...> wrote:
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> I don't think that EDE works with a USB floppy drive either. Do you have access to a computer with a built-in drive?
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> On May 30, 2010, at 12:40 PM, cappuchino_blue wrote:
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> > Hello.
> > I think I have managed to make a new record here. I have bought the VFX SD for £162 a couple of weeks back from eBay. I received it in beautifully working condition and instantly was satisfied. 
> > 
> > Three days after having it, I then went to test the floppy drive by writing 60 programs to the floppy disk. They wrote fine, but immediately after the operation was finished, I pressed the sequencer button and got 'Sequencer Must Be Loaded' instead of the sequencer loading. After seeing the message, I reset it and had the same thing. I then later discovered that resetting it erases the sequencer (oops).
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> > I now am stuck with a sequencer which has some lovely sounds and presets, but no sequencer. The sequencer is the most important part to me. Here is what I have tried:
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> > I have tried starting EDE in windows command prompt (Windows XP). Version 109 worked but I got an address mark error. 107 and 108 wouldn't start.
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> > I then used a utility which made EDE bootable by creating a ram disk. That worked fine except 109 gave me a 'sector not found' error. I put this down as using an HD disk rather than the DD disk I should be using. I bought 10 brand new DD disks only to find out my floppy drive doesn't support DD disks.
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> > EDE 107 and 108 at startup give me an error before even starting up to the program, but after being written to the ramdisk. The error occurs when I type 'EDE' (without quotes) into the FreeDOS prompt. I will post the error in a comment if required. Just post a reply saying if you need this error.
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> > NOTE: I am using an IBM USB floppy drive.
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> > Omniflop doesn't work with USB drives. It does however, work in VMware Player where the VM detects the USB drive as built in via a virtual floppy controller. Omniflop isn't supposed to work with virtual hardware, but in my case it did and it formatted successfully. The only problem with this method is that I can't write to the disk.
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> > When I put the disk formatted in Omniflop into my synth, it said it wasn't formatted and bought me up to the format page.
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> > Can anyone help me with this? I could just go out and buy a disk, but before I shell out all the money (and I can't be bothered waiting for it to arrive from the USA to the UK), I want to see if I can create my own disk.
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> > Thanks in advance. I know this post is confusing, so if you need any clarification on anything, post a reply and I will be more than happy to explain further.
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> > Once again, many thanks in advance.
> > Jonathan.
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