Hi Frank,
The way I see it, if you need to know.ask.
It's for storage of sounds and sequences just like the Floppy Disk Drive
only without all the hassle of wear and tear. The FDD on the Ensoniq
SD1 is an old Sony Format with different pin-outs than the type readily
available nowadays, so if it goes it may be difficult to get a
replacement and you will have to pay over the odds if you do track one
down. Also, as this device uses solid state memory (no head seeking or
other moving parts) it should return data much quicker than the current
drive.
Your FDD would have to be at least partially working for this device to
work as it plugs in via the existing drive and relies on the drive
reporting back to the OS. My original FDD started playing-up in 1999
and I was fortunate enough at the time to have a contact in Sony who
helped me get a hybrid drive with the "brains" and pin-outs of the old
Sony format. The replacement drive has been running since but drives
don't tend to live forever. They tend to become a bit intermittent as
the head wears, as happened with the original. However, even if you
have a drive which occasionally throws a "bad data" error this device
should still run fine as long as the FDD reports back ok to the OS. For
this device to totally replace the FDD it would require much more
"brains" and would therefore be much more expensive.
I hope this is of help to you.
Cheers,
John
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-----Original Message-----
From: Ensoniq-VFX-SD@yahoogroups.com
[mailto:Ensoniq-VFX-SD@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Frank Crawford
Sent: 28 February 2007 13:49
To: Ensoniq-VFX-SD@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [Ensoniq-VFX-SD] FDD Fix for SD1 and most synths with FDD
please pardon me for being so niaeve, but what is this device for?
----- Original Message -----
From: ens0n1q <mailto:john.boyle03@...>
To: Ensoniq-VFX- <mailto:Ensoniq-VFX-SD@yahoogroups.com>
SD@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2007 6:48 AM
Subject: [Ensoniq-VFX-SD] FDD Fix for SD1 and most synths with FDD
Hi all,
If like me you're wondering how to keep your SD1 alive or are just
tired of floppying around. Look at the HDM-UNIFlash in the following
link: http://www.2av. <http://www.2av.com.ua/indexe.htm>
com.ua/indexe.htm
Excuse me if this is old news but it's new to me and I just spent 3
days of intensive searching in the hope that someone had invented such
a device. I was just about to give up the ghost when I encountered
this.
If you've used it / heard about it then please let me know.
Cheers,
John
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