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Re: [Ensoniq-VFX-SD] Error Message When using Disk Drive : "Disk Error : Bad Device ID"

2013-06-13 by Richard Baldwin

Thank you for the very swift advice. Glad to hear my drive may still be operational!

Thanks again

On 13 Jun 2013 17:53, "STEPHEN PRATT" <alto.sax@...> wrote:
Get a blank floppy and see if you can format it and save banks to it.
That will help rule out the floppy as the cause of the problem.

I believe the SD sees all floppies as Single Density even if they have the HD cutout on the floppy - so it shouldn't matter what you use.



On Jun 13, 2013, at 12:33 PM, Stakker wrote:

Hi everyone, I'm new to this forum having just acquired a VFX-SD.

I am enjoying using it and exploring it's odd menus, but am unable to load the sequencer thanks to the following error when I click 'Load':

"Disk Error : Bad Device ID"

Is this because the disk drive needs replacing or is it more likely that it's just the one single disk i have is corrupted?

Has anyone else seen this error?

I thank you for your help!

Rich


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