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Re: [akaiS1000S1100Samplers] S1000 Floppy issue

2010-03-31 by PeWe


1.)
S-1100 and S-1000 have these options

2.)
I guess it´s the disk drive !!!!
I had the same case in the 90th and before it happened, data written to disk appeared corrupted when reading.

Better look for a replacement,- check Route66Studios for replacement disk drives.
http://www.route66studios.com/drives.html
I see S-900,- maybe it fits the S-1000.

If you´ve found a replacement drive,- move over using SCSI ( simple SCSI, not SCSI 2 or SCSI ultrawide or such) harddrives and/or MO drives,- just only using the floppy drive to transfer your floppy-disk library to the harddrives and backup on the MO drive.
Once done,- forget the floppys at all.

Even version of OS in eproms doesn´t matter anymore ´cause you can simply copy the latest OS to he harddrive and boot from there.

Advice:
Don´t believe, every HD floppy drive will work in a S-1xxx series sampler,- so you probably won´t get it cheap.
Once,-I replaced a floppy drive in my S-1000,- it was definitely a TEAC,- but I forgot the model number, so some investigation is needed.


Am 31.03.2010 19:27, schrieb Mike Yates:

either 2 things I can think of
1. you're selecting 'low' and not 'high' although i have an s1100 so im not sure if the s1000 has this option.
2. it's your disk drive
what OS you running?, as in, the OS on startup without an OS disk.
----- Original Message -----
From: a p
Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2010 6:10 PM
Subject: [akaiS1000S1100Samplers] S1000 Floppy issue


Hey everyone. I have a weird issue with my floppy drive. I try and format discs to use with my S1000, and when its done formatting, I try to save something to it, and it says unformatted disc. I have tried this with about 5 diff discs, all fresh formats, to no avail. I have nothing here, to test if it can load sounds or anything, so am definitely open to ideas. Anyone?

Thanks!

alexP

www.myspace.com/twitchcraft

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